Summary: French-born Michel Gondry is known for his visually groundbreaking imagery and re-interpretations of reality. A former drummer, his first collaboration with Björk for "Human Behaviour" (featuring Bjork as a hunter who eventually winds up inside a bear's stomach), helped revive what was then a dwindling music video industry, and went on to win nearly every music video award. A collection of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Train Productions 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WORSummary: An inside look at The Elephant 6 Recording Co., the '90s rock collective that launched Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, and other bands. Around 1985, a group of Louisiana high schoolers began experimenting with whatever random instruments and gear they could find. Influenced by psychedelia, and with little to distract them, they birthed a musical revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELESummary: London-based Chris Cunningham has created some of the most provocative and visually disturbing subject matter in the history of the music video or film. His unnerving, award-winning works have included Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy (an elderly woman is chased through an English council housing complex by pint-sized Richard James mutants); Bjork's All is Full of Love (Two robots fall in love as one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WORSummary: This is a deeply moving portrait of Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent who is conflicted with his success, and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly and ironically influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his first book, Where the wild things are, which he wrote after spending ten years as an illustrator. Through his own words, firsthand photos, and illustrations, Sendak...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TELSummary: Includes the director's music videos for the bands Jay-Z, Linkin park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Audioslave, No Doubt, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Fiona Apple, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Weezer, Eels, Snic Youth, Madonna, R.E.M., G. Love & Special Sauce, David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Keith Richards, En Vogue and kd lang, as well as interviews, commentaries and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WORLange, Dorothea.
Summary: A collection of black-and-white photographs by early twentieth-century photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her pictures of Depression-era America, featuring selections drawn from throughout her career; with an essay that provides information about Lange's life and work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 LANLange, Tracey
Summary: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all, and her high school sweetheart, five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021