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Check out these three books featuring folks who build their own awesome eco homes, and this inspiring natural building documentary film.

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Since then, Palatucci's fame has only grown: books, documentaries, and films have been devoted to his life; streets, buildings, and schools have been named after him; and awards have been presented in his name.

Building on her strong commitment to mentoring, Meyer will also use the fellowship to produce a short documentary film highlighting the work of women in coral reef research.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

On the negative side there's Barry Braverman's pointless documentary «The Making of The Darjeeling Limited,» an unstructured 40 - minute slog of on - set footage where Anderson directs, the stars of the film wait around Indian locations, and the crew builds sets and manages local extras, all devoid of interviews or commentaries.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

The Houses October Built Blu - ray — A group of friends films a documentary about the most extreme Halloween haunts in the country, soon discovering an underground organization called the Blue Skulls that gives them everything they have been looking for and more.

The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 82 shorts, most of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.

That's the surface message of «A Lego Brickumentary,» a new film that feels more like a promotional piece for the celebrated building blocks than a documentary.

Slightly similar to The Longest Day in one respect, like that film it told the story of an infamous day from the perspectives of the different sides — the build - up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is seen from both their perspective and the Americans», with an almost documentary - like approach aided by a lack of genuine movie stars producing a very fine, compelling picture.

Disc 2's hourlong 1973 documentary on Hawks is the best film in the set, built around an expansive poolside interview with the old director.

The great video label Milestone has produced a great DVD set built around the half - hour documentary, adding as many surviving films (a few even restored) as possible to show just what happened, how this led to major production in Hollywood and how the truth is disappearing as the town seems to want to forget for some odd reason (speculation would require a new documentary) and we even see one of the final studios before it itself disappears.

Jacques Rivette's dazzling 750 - minute Out 1 (1971)-- an eight - part serial in 16 - millimeter still unscreened in this country that remains one of the boldest experiments in film narrative ever attempted — was conceived as a kind of parody of Bazin's ideas in its deft mixture of documentary and fiction, its improvising actors working through a dense plot built around real and imagined conspiracies, and even its extended takes, one of which lasts 45 minutes as it records a theater group's exercise.

The small film festival that takes place each year in college town Columbia, Missouri, has built itself into one of the best destinations to see documentary film.

Beyond the films themselves, the 2003 Sundance was notable for its continuing efforts to build an infrastructure for the production and exhibition of documentary film.

Quarantine Rated R for bloody violent and disturbing content, terror and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This documentary - style horror film tells the story of a group of people quarantined into an apartment building by the CDC when a virus erupts that turns humans into rabid, deadly creatures.

A documentary film about dance in NYC public schools with a tool kit and resources for other districts to begin building dance programs

Start your build - up to the Oscars buzz early or just enjoy access to a bevy of the year's best independent, international, student, LGBT, and documentary films.

This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy, a librarian — an ordinary couple of modest means who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.

As the new documentary film Ivory Tower highlights, Cooper established an endowment for the school that owns the land beneath the Chrysler Building to fulfill his vision.

Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

Holzfeind presents a new documentary film and installation on the Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments that consider how the social fabric of these buildings has been shaped over time by their architecture.

Luke Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

The keen retrospective eye of the curators has thrown up a rewarding mix of the mainstream and the obscure, and it is worth the ticket price solely for the video of German opera singer Klaus Nomi performing Lightning Strikes in an over shoulder - padded, shiny tuxedo.Highlights include the subversive designs of the Italian collectives Studio Alchymia and Memphis; graphics by Peter Saville and Neville Brody; the original presentation drawing for Philip Johnson's AT&T building (1978); paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol; Jeff Koons» stainless steel bust of Louis XIV (1986); performance costumes, including David Byrne's big suit from the documentary Stop Making Sense (1984); excerpts from films such as Derek Jarman's The Last of England (1987); and music videos featuring Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order.Catalogue offerSave # 8 on the exhibition catalogue with your National Art Pass.

This retrospective celebrates the brilliance and radical nature of his work in various media: sculptural objects (most, notably, from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and documentary materials.

Alvarez is currently part of a sci - fi documentary film and transmedia project about the imaginative and material processes of building transcendent, utopian communities in Brasília, Brazil.

A documentary, work of fiction and essay film, Facs of Life maps several trajectories of life and thought, beginning from a series of encounters: with video footage of Gilles Deleuze's courses at Vincennes (1975 - 76), with a number of students who attended the seminar and who appear in these images, with the woods where the university buildings once stood, and with students of the new university at St Denis; The eight plateaus that compose the film each fall under a key concept - word that defines the territory of each student's relationship to Deleuze's thought and the nature of the filmmakers» encounter with them.

This retrospective brings together the breadth of his practice to reveal the unique beauty and radical nature of his punnings, plans, performances, and interventions evident in the many media in which he worked: the sculptural objects (most notably from building cuts), drawings, films, photographs, notebooks, and documentary material.

Finally, I was reminded that the deadline is quickly approaching (March 31) for a «Legacy of Good» documentary film contest developed by Dell, Grenier and other partners — with the goal of creating short videos describing the merits of building a «circular economy.»

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A welcome debate is building about Robert Stone's new documentary film, «Pandora's Promise.»

«Small Is Beautiful» is a masterfully filmed, scored and edited documentary that plunges deeply into not just the practicalities of tiny house living and building, but also into the emotional processes and nuances that come with the transition to tiny.

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«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.