theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists. Each film provides a thought-provoking survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by sequences captured of key exhibitions and installations around the world.
The beautifully produced films offer a rare and personal insight into the influences and creative processes that lie behind the artist’s creations, and provide an accessible means of engaging with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the 21st century.
An excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works, theEYE is an ideal resource for a wide range of audience, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as the individual art-lover.
NOTE: All DVDs from theEYE Series are in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
Anthony Caro
Tracey Emin
Gilbert and George
Howard Hodgkin
Anish Kapoor
Malcolm Morley
Chris Ofili
Rachel Whiteread
To purchase all eight titles in theEYE Series: $499.00
In the early 1960s Anthony Caro led a revolution in sculpture in Britain. His abstract steel constructions, often painted in bold colors, forged a new and internationally influential sculptural language. In the years since his fertile and diverse practice has consistently challenged and extended what sculpture is, and what it might be.
At the age of 80, Anthony Caro remains intensely active, working each day in his studio and overseeing every detail of an extensive retrospective at Tate. Preparations for the show are featured in this profile, along with many of his major works, filmed in Britain, Germany and the United States.
In interview Anthony Caro speaks about the development of his art from the bronze figures of the 1950s through the many variations of his work with metals, his hybrids of sculpture and architecture, and his recent large-scale, multi-part responses to Old Master painting and the worlds of myth and Christianity. The film is a portrait of an artist of great distinction whose inventiveness and creative vigor are undiminished.
Anthony Caro Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
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- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
Although at times obscured by the artist’s celebrity, the art of Tracey Emin is serious and focused, challenging and at times startlingly beautiful. In this film, she speaks frankly about her career, the craft of her immensely varied work, and the immediate, personal themes with which she engages: autobiography, memory, desire, and identity.
Many of her best-known works, including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1995) and My Bed (1998), are illustrated and discussed, as is a wide selection of drawings, prints, paintings, neons, appliqué blankets and installations.
“I always say if I didn’t make art, I’d probably be dead,” she reflects. “But let’s be more realistic about that. If I didn’t make art and I’d done well in life, then I might have gone into retail. I would probably be the person in the shop that would be always organizing the displays, and always making the noticeboard look nice in the canteen, stuff like that. I’m a genuinely creative person.”
Please note that this video contains explicit images and adult language featured in artworks by Tracey Emin.
Tracey Emin Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
Gilbert Prousch met George Passmore at St Martin’s School of Art in 1967. Since then they have famously lived and worked together as Gilbert & George, creating an extraordinary body of provocative artworks. They have exhibited themselves as “Living Sculptures”, documented the banality of their daily lives in London’s East End, and, since the late 1970s, produced vibrant, challenging photographic collages.
This video profile of Gilbert & George features a characteristically deadpan performance of themselves. Sex, money, race and religion, they explain, are four themes at the heart of their art. Their interview is complemented by images of many of their works, including the remarkable Dirty Words Pictures made in 1977, together with important collages of the 1980s and 1990s.
Asked if their work, and their personas, are ironic, Gilbert says, ” We always think it’s struggle enough to drag something out from inside of ourselves onto that wall without trying to be strange or odd about it. We wanted to be absolutely painful truth,” George adds. “I really believe it has to be painful.”
“1980’s The World of Gilbert and George is really only interesting as an unwitting document of its time, but theEYE, an extended interview on the pair, is fascinating…”
-Guardian Guide, February 2007
Gilbert and George Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
Howard Hodgkin is one of the world’s leading painters, whose art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly colored, sweeping compositions, which continue into the picture-frame itself. These paintings uniquely straddle representation and abstraction, at the same time as they demonstrate both an awareness of history and an understanding of art’s potential today. Most recently, his interest in working in different scales, evident particularly in significantly larger paintings such as Americana and After Vuillard, demonstrates his concern to engage the viewer in new and challenging ways.
In this interview, illustrated with many key paintings, Howard Hodgkin speaks with warmth and passion about how his methods, about his influences, about color and composition, and about the fundamental importance of painting. “You need things to look at,” he says simply, “things to affect your feelings, and your intelligence, and your heart.”
Howard Hodgkin Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
In October 2002 Anish Kapoor completed his extraordinary sculpture Marsyas for The Unilever Series of commissions in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. A challenging and overwhelming artwork, Marsyas is a vast red PVC membrane stretched between three massive steel rings. The title refers to a satyr in Greek mythology who was flayed alive by the god Apollo.
This film follows the making of Marsyas, from the earliest maquettes to the complex installation at Tate. Anish Kapoor comments on each stage of the process, and on the ideas and concerns of his art. Also illustrated are a range of his other sculptures and two recent large-scale works: Sky Mirror in Nottingham and Taratantara, created for the empty shell of Baltic as this new art center was being built in Gateshead.
Anish Kapoor Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
Malcolm Morley is one of the most significant and influential painters working today. Born in England but active in the United States since the late 1950s, Morley has developed an intensely individual vision embracing, but never determined by, autobiography, politics, psychoanalysis, myth, the visual culture of his time and the limitless potential of paint.
Filmed as Morley works in his distinctive manner on a spectacular new canvas, this documentary features the artist’s provocative reflections on his life, painting technique, influences and concerns. It also illustrates a wide range of his paintings from the earliest abstract works, through the painstakingly precise depictions of reproductions (on postcards, from travel brochures) of ships, contemporary scenes and Old Masters, to the catastrophe pictures of the 1970s.
Paintings engaging with ancient cultures followed, and then works based on the cardboard cut-out airplane and boat kits which Morley has made since his youth. Most recently, he has returned to paintings of news photographs, exploring a striking and challenging new range of imagery.
Malcolm Morley Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense color and enveloping light.
Shot in London, Germany and Venice, this film relates the creation of Within Reach. Chris Ofili’s reflections on the process are complemented by interviews with his collaborator in Venice, architect David Adjaye, and the structural engineer from Arup Associates, who helped realize the complex dome.
Also included is an exploration of The Upper Room, an installation of 13 exquisite canvases by Ofili, which was first shown in 2002. Both this and Within Reach are about “trying to create an atmosphere for people to feel somehow out of themselves.” His aim, the artist explains, is to “do something that is sincerely interesting and can honestly enhance the experience of looking.”
Chris Ofili Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London’s East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality.
In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London’s Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
Rachel Whiteread Product Information
Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Art
Language: English
Set: DVD Only
Total Running Time: 26 minutes
Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
NOTE: This film is in PAL Region 0, which will play on most computers and some standard North American DVD players.
- College / University: $129.00
-
- Library / High School: $89.00
- Note: If you are unable to pay via PayPal, please contact info@alivemindeducation.com or call us at 212-398-3112 to order this title.
For public exhibition inquiries please contact us for more details!
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A true story, 18 year old Violette Nozière (brilliantly played here by Isabelle Huppert, 12-time César Award nominee for Best Actress) was condemned to death for patricide and attempted matricide in the 1930s, ostensibly to gain access to her parents’ meager assets in order to support her good-for-nothing lover. During the trial she alludes to incest committed by her father and accuses her mother of tacit consent. She also claimed that her real father, a wealthy and powerful man, refuses to acknowledge her because she was born out of wedlock. Violette offers a chilling portrait of French society and sexual morals in the early 20th century.
