| Description |
1 online resource (50 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online, volume 2 |
| Contents |
The great sail (10 min., 1966) -- Dancing with Miklós : while he makes The Blue Danube waltz (28 min., c1992) / notations in video by Robert Gardner -- Good to pull (Bon à tirer) (10 min., c2000) / a video by Robert Gardner |
| Summary |
Making marks, or causing them to be made as in the case of filmmakers, is what artists do. They see, imagine, hallucinate some shape, color or tone and then pick up their tools to render it in steel, light, copper or almost anything else. Here are three examples of what can happen |
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The great sail: Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was erected on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in 1966 with the artist directing the work. As the spectacular steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, it is filmed with time lapse and verite photography. One can see that the structure owes its spare elegance to the precision of its design and constaruction. Calder remains absorbed in quiet concentration as skeptical students and bemused bystanders observe the somewhat improbable event |
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Dancing with Miklós: While watching prolific Hungarian filmmaker Miklos Jancso make his political thriller, The Blue Danube Waltz (Kék Duna keringö), Robert Gardner begins to film. Jancso's style seeps through to the documentarian's factual eye to create more than a behind-the-scenes exploration; it's an insightful, eloquent, and entertaining tribute from one filmmaker to another |
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Good to pull (Bon à tirer): This short video is about a collaboration between the artist Michael Mazur and his master printer, Robert Townsend, as they work on a suite of etchings drawn from the celebrated monotypes Mazur made for Dante's Inferno. The monotypes were published in an earlier collaboration between Mazur and Robert Pinsky, the poet and translator. The etchings will become part of a remarkable history of similar undertakings by such other illustrators as Botticelli, Blake, Doré, Lebrun and Phillips |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014) |
| Credits |
The great sail: Production, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; direction, Robert Gardner ; photography, Michael Butler, Robert Gardner, Len Gittleman, William Smock, John Spock, Henry Stone ; music, Jay Jaroslav |
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Dancing with Miklós: ; HR Productions ; produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Gardner ; camera, Robert Gardner ; editing, Zsuzsi Csakany |
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Good to pull (Bon à tirer): Produced by The Film Study Center, Harvard University ; with Michael Mazur and Robert Townsend (master printer). Canto XXVIII spoken by Vittorio Sermonti ; scenes from L'inferno (1911) directed by Adolfo Padovan & Francesco Bertolini with the collaboration of Giuseppe De Liguoro |
| Event |
Recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Budapest, Hungary |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
| Subject |
Townsend, Robert E
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Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009.
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Jancsó, Miklós, 1921-2014 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno -- Illustrations
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| SUBJECT |
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. fast (OCoLC)fst00043452 |
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Jancsó, Miklós, 1921-2014. fast (OCoLC)fst00078663 |
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Mazur, Michael, 1935-2009. fast (OCoLC)fst01731432 |
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Inferno (Dante Alighieri) fast (OCoLC)fst01356245 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Hungary
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Steel sculpture -- United States
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Sculpture -- United States
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Sculptors -- United States.
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Art -- United States
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Monotype (Engraving) -- 20th century.
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Art.
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Monotype (Engraving)
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
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Sculptors.
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Sculpture.
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Steel sculpture.
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Hungary.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Documentary films.
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Illustrated works.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Fitzgerald, Michael, film producer.
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Gardner, Robert, 1925-2014, film director, film producer.
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Harvard University. Film Study Center, production company.
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, production company.
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Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), publisher
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