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1) Objectified
Publisher
Distributed by Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. Objectified is about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured...
2) Helvetica
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In recent years, many people are redefining their American Dream to focus on flexibility, financial freedom, and quality of life over quantity of space. These self-proclaimed "Tiny Housers" live in homes smaller than the average parking space, often built on wheels to bypass building codes and zoning laws. Tiny takes viewers inside six of these homes stripped to their essentials, exploring the owners' stories and the design innovations that make them...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Carved from a hundred million pounds of stone, soaring effortlessly atop a spiderweb of masonry, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. But how did medieval builders reach such spectacular heights? Consuming the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking a hundred years to build, these architectural marvels were crafted from just hand tools and stone. Many now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse.
Publisher
Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This portrait of Vladimir Kagan–noted furniture designer, sculptor, and writer, documents his creative process, from initial drawings and design ideas through the creation of the Gigi and Gabriella chairs. His long career and continued inventiveness from the late forties to 2016 had a seminal influence on Twentieth Century design.
10) Scrap
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycke the world's scrap. SCRAP scratches beneath flaking paint and rusting metal to reveal the beauty and pathos in the ugliness we leave behind.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After hearing an NPR podcast in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, semi-retired construction worker Tim Myers is so moved he decides to build a school in the rural Haitian community of Villard. He meets his counterpart Anselm Saimplice, who readily accepts Tim's vision for a new school. Very quickly, things spiral out of control. Trying to teach Haitian laborers new skills, Tim imposes his style of construction and values. And as filmmakers and...
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a house has been left for dead, the ZOMBIE HOUSE FLIPPERS bring it back to life. Operating in Orlando, Florida, Justin Stamper, Ashlee Casserly, and Keith Ori have made a name for themselves flipping rotting, abandoned properties – “zombie houses” – into beautifully remade homes for top dollar. Hour-long episodes show the inner workings of this high-stakes world full of unexpected disasters, hidden costs, and quirky personalities that...
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a house has been left for dead, the ZOMBIE HOUSE FLIPPERS bring it back to life. Operating in Orlando, Florida, Justin Stamper, Ashlee Casserly, and Keith Ori have made a name for themselves flipping rotting, abandoned properties – “zombie houses” – into beautifully remade homes for top dollar. Hour-long episodes show the inner workings of this high-stakes world full of unexpected disasters, hidden costs, and quirky personalities that...
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
The documentary explores Olivetti's industrial design from Adriano's death to the 90s through the challenges of an era marked by rapid innovations: the transition from mechanical technology to electronics, up to the IT and telecommunication era.
15) Patagonia rising
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
A proposed building of a dam along the Baker and Pascua rivers causes great conflict among the people of Patagonia.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
17) Fast five
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
After Brian and Mia break Dom out of jail, they find themselves trapped in Rio de Janeiro and on the run from the law. Now one last job stands between them and freedom, but will they make it before the corrupt businessmen, or the feds, catch up to them?
Publisher
Starz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A dramatized look at the life and times of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, including his career with Christian Dior's Paris fashion house, his longtime relationship with Pierre Bergé, and the founding of the Yves Saint Laurent Company.
19) Fast & furious 6
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
"[This film] follows the events leading up to the iconic fashion effrontery at the Chateau de Versailles on November 28, 1973 ... when five French designers--Givenchy, Cardin, YSL, Ungaro and Dior took on five American designers (Halston, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Oscar de la Renta and Stephen Burrows) in a fashion showdown to save the palace"--Container.