Judith Wechsler (Firm)
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the artist at work. The film begins in 1972 with Johns repainting Air Ocean World based on Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion map. Johns work is traced over the next eighteen years. His Untitled, 1973, with its cross-hatching, flagstones, and anatomical parts become recurrent motifs, as Johns begins to imbed skulls and severed arms in them. The paintings become more personal as Johns gradually “drops the reserve” in his recent series,...
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) guides us through his documentary work in the 1930s to his last period of abstraction. We see him photographing, printing, and discussing his life and work. Winner of a Gold Plaque Award at the **Chicago International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful. She speaks of her way of looking, the impact of landscape, and a new sense of narrative and composition. A legendary teacher at Harvard, her compelling account introduces us to her highly original work.
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This film interprets the life and work of American photographer Harry Callahan, guided by his thoughts about photography and reminiscences of Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Aaron Siskind. The film includes Callahan at work in 1973 and 1983, segments of his films, archival film of him teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design and recent interviews. A moving tribute to one of this century’s most distinguished photographers....
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Paris arcades were a principal focus of renowned German and Jewish literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. From 1927-1940 he worked on a massive, unfinished work: "My book, Paris Arcades, is the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas." The Arcades are set in the context of his life and times, through Benjamin’s writings, correspondence, and quotations from The Arcades Project.
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The film traces the intellectual development of Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) a leading thinker in the context of his life and times, through archival film and recordings of its subject, as well as interviews with his biographer Michael Ignatieff, his principal editor Henry Hardy, and pianist and writer Alfred Brendel, and others. After Isaiah Berlin’s encounter with Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1945, he shifts from analytic philosophy to the history...
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Art and cultural historian Aby Warburg’s ideas from the early Italian Renaissance to his ventures in the American Southwest observing Hopi and Zuni ritual dances in 1895, he sought the legacy of ancient Greece in the images and symbols of different cultures. Underneath the seeming rationality of antiquity and the Renaissance, he sensed conflict and irrationality.
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990), was a noted Judaic scholar who exemplified scholarly integrity and the revivification of Judaic studies in a time of exile. The film explores the context of German-Jewish learning in which he developed and the theological, literary and philosophical worlds to which he contributed. A foremost disciple of the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Glatzer succeeded Martin Buber at the University of Frankfurt in the sole position...
Publisher
Judith Wechsler
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. A brilliant writer of ambitious scope and great imagination,...
