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Brothers and sisters Eames chairs Furniture design Human beings Effect of technological innovations on Human beings Effect of technological innovations on Drama Office furniture Railroads Models Technological innovations Social aspects Technological innovations Social aspects Drama Technology Social aspectsSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Perličky na dně: These five eccentric tales take the viewer on a journey from a motorcycle race to a rain-soaked wedding party to an unexpected cross-cultural romance. -- Sedmikrasky: "Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them."--O...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEASummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Set in a blighted Nevada outpost in 2007, a telepathic father and daughter lead a group of media outlaws in resistance against a corporate/governmental "New Electronic Order" that threatens to use the earth's magnetosphere to "bulk erase" the brains of every human on the planet. The only way to save humanity is to uncover a secret lodged in an old episode of the 1950s series Science in Action....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005