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WORLD'S DREAM STAGE,THEBeijing, the capital of China, has rapidlygrown into a city of architectural genius.With the opening of the National Center forPerforming Arts designed by world famousFrench architect Paul Andreu, (Paris'Charles de Gaulle Airport,) Beijing nowhosts the largest ellipsoid in the world atover 6 million square feet.Complimenting "The Bird's Nest, Beijing'sOlympic Stadium, the silver dome-shapedgrand theatre is affectionately dubbed"The Egg," and is covered with 2000titanium panels and 1000 pieces of shiningglass. It is strategically built on Beijing'sChang-an Avenue, an area filled witharchitectural history spanning 600 years.This "Dream Stage" is surrounded by amagnificent clear sky and a man-madelake. The highly sophisticated Centerseats 6,500 people and is made up ofthree performance halls: the Opera Hall,Concert Hall and Theatre Hall. No only is itan architectural marvel, but also alandscape wonder with pleasant gardens,and expertly designed engineering. Fromsound engineering to structuralengineering. "The World's Dream Stage"will take you on a personal tour andin-depth presentation of this magnificentlandmark in the capital city of China.Item no. : CV00161167Format : DVDDuration : 54 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00ARTDESTINATION ART- BERLINThe spotlight falls on Berlin, an epicenter,of European contemporary art. When theBerlin wall came down in 1989, artistsmoved in attracted by the city's bohemianimage and liberalism. Frank Thiel hasdocumented the rapid rebirth andarchitectural changes in the reunifiedBerlin and Norbert Bisky's violent, butpastel scenes deal with disillusion in theutopia of a western world.Item no. : ER00161106Format : DVDDuration : 26 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00DESTINATION ART- CAPETOWNA visit to Cape Town reveals artists whoare working in post-Apartheid South Africa.Sculptor and painter, Willie Bester, revealswhy he trawls the city’s junkyards forinspiration and materials and sound artistJames Webb takes us on a tour of CapeTown. Also featured: Nandipha Mntambo,Mustafa MalukaItem no. : LC00161107Format : DVDDuration : 26 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00DESTINATION ART- ITALYTravel to Italy to discover more about itsburgeoning contemporary art scene. Wemeet rising star Patrick Tuttofuoco, whouses architecture as inspiration for hisdynamic sculptures and we meet ilPadre of contemporary Italian art,Michelangelo Pistoletto.Item no. : DH00161108Format : DVDDuration : 26 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00DESTINATION ART-MUMBAIDestination Art travels to Mumbai, thefastest moving, most affluent andindustrialized city in India. We take a lookat its ever changing landscape through theeyes of two very different artists, HemaUpadhyay and Sudhir Patwardhan.Item no. : ZY00161109Format : DVDDuration : 26 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00DESTINATION ART- TOKYOIn the vibrant city of Tokyo where Asianand Western art styles meet,photographer Ishiuchi Miyako discussesher captivating work which explores thepassage of time. We also meet one ofJapan's most established sculptures andpainters, 77-year old Yayoi Kusama.Item no. : GJ00161110Format : DVDDuration : 26 minutesAudience : Senior High - CollegeCopyright : 2009Price : USD 195.00YOU CAN PAINT - IPROMISEArtist Robert Garden brings his popularinstructional seminars to you on DVD. Hisgradual explanation of painting principleswill have you painting before you know it.Item no. : NK04240103Format : DVDDuration : 30 minutesCopyright : 2009Price : USD 29.95YOU CAN PAINT ASEASCAPEJoin Robert Garden as he demonstratestime-saving techniques and advancedcolor mixing that will guide the viewer inone quick and easy painting lesson.Item no. : TS04300104Format : DVDDuration : 30 minutesCopyright : 2009Price : USD 29.95YOU CAN PAINT A STILLLIFERobert Garden uses a colorful subject todemonstrate oil painting techniques thatwill teach students how to paint a still life inone class period.Item no. : HC00100105Format : DVDDuration : 30 minutesCopyright : 2009Price : USD 29.95ART HISTORYIN A DREAMDirected by Jeremiah ZagarIn the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood ofSouth Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet ofconcrete are covered with tile andmirrors—mosaics that were created byIsaiah Zagar, an eccentric, tormentedartist.The murals chronicle his love for his wife,Julia, and subtly hint at the darker cornersof an extraordinary imagination. WhereIsaiah is obsessive and narcissistic—aformer Peace Corps volunteer who hasbecome an icon in South Philly's artcommunity—Julia is gracious and warm.For decades, their opposing naturescomplemented one another perfectly. Butsuddenly the family is torn apart at theseams: A few hours before picking up hisoldest son from a rehabilitation center,Isaiah declares to the camera, "As peopleget older they have less and less passion."He then confesses to an affair with hisassistant, is kicked out of the house, andspirals into a debilitating, suicidaldepression.In a Dream is a loving, but unsparingpsychological portrait of an artist, of theartistic process and mental illness.Reviews• "Bursting with vivid home movies andloving appreciations of Isaiah'sartwork — frenzied drawings andmonumental mosaics in tile and mirror,many of which now beautify hisPhiladelphia neighborhood — In aDream abounds in visual pleasure." -The New York Times• "A stunning, deeply personaldocumentary portrait. 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home movies, wonderful animatedsequences derived from Isaiah's art,and scenes of Isaiah at work, of Juliain agony, and of their eldest son, Zeke,grappling with his own demons, In aDream captures a family imploding.Their lives are laid bare, in broken bits,like the ceramic that Isaiah uses forhis art, and they come together in In aDream with sadness and beauty, rageand insight." – Philadelphia Inquirer• "As a story about art and artists, In aDream is soft-spoken, well-paced,and smoothly engrossing. As aportrait of a sweet but slightlyfractured man, it's one of the mostunexpectedly touching documentariesI've ever seen." – CinematicalAwards• Winner, Emerging Visions AudienceAward, South by Southwest FilmFestival, 2008• Winner, Audience Award, SanFrancisco International Film Festival,2008• Winner, Guggenheim Emerging ArtistAward, Full Frame Film Festival, 2008• Winner, Best Documentary,Woodstock Film Festival, 2008• Winner, Best First Film, PhiladelphiaFilm Festival, 2008Item no. : PC05970674Format : DVDDuration : 80 minutesCopyright : 2008Price : USD 295.00LIFE IN PRINT, ADirected by Michel FraserA rich historical record of Chicano art, lifeand culture since WWII, A Life in Print is aprofile of printmaker Xavier Viramontes,one of the most influential artists of ourtime and a founding member of Galeria dela Raza. His iconoclastic silk screen poster,"Boycott Grapes," for Cesar Chavez andthe United Farmworkers rallied a nationand sparked the Chicano movement in art.Featuring interviews with art historians,artists, curators, and contemporarycolleagues, and complemented bywonderful archival photographs, film andvideo footage, the documentaryshowcases Viramontes at work in hisstudio and beautifully illustrates thevarious influences on his artistic output –from the political to the personal, tradition,personal identity, community and therituals of a Chicano family.A Life in Print also explores the history ofGaleria de la Raza, its origins and impacton the Chicano Movement as well asproviding rare access to the technicallycomplex and artistically challengingprocess of multiple plate etchings. Fromhis studio at one of the country's largestprintmaking departments at City College ofSan Francisco, Xavier provides anin-depth demo of the entire printmakingprocess taking the viewer step by stepfrom concept to a completed hand-pulledprint."Boycott Grapes" is in the permanentcollections of the Smithsonian InstitutionNational Museum of American Art inWashington D.C., and the NationalHispanic Cultural Center in AlbuquerqueNew Mexico. Xavier's artwork is also in thepermanent collection of the NationalMuseum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL.Item no. : CW05970696Format : DVDDuration : 60 minutesCopyright : 2008Price : USD 295.00ART: 1900 -PRESENTPABLO PICASSOBy Didier Baussy-OulianoffPABLO PICASSO (1881 – 1973)Picasso was avant-garde, traditional, anerotomaniac. He is a legend whosepaintings almost everyone can visualisetoday. His works and character had anenormous influence on 20th century art.As an artist and man, he is stillone-of-a-kind, rather like the collection ofhis works on display at the PicassoMuseum in Paris.Didier Baussy-Oulianoff presents them,sorts them according to period andestablishes what inspired them. Baussy’sanalysis also explains why some of thepaintings on display were so close toPicasso’s heart that he never sold them,preferring to hold on to them until he died.HE WANTED TO BE A PAINTER ANDBECAME PICASSOItem no. : DG00771754Format : DVD (Region 1, Color)Duration : 80 minutesCopyright : 2009StdBkNo : 9780769788470Price : USD 39.99ASIAN STUDIES24 CITYDirected by Jia Zhang-keA masterful new documentary from JiaZhang-ke – "Not only is the 38-year-olddirector the most prominent Chinesefilmmaker of his generation, he also hascome to assume the role of witness andconscience in a society characterized byrapid modernization and a growingamnesia." (Dennis Lim, LA Times, 2008) –24 City recounts the dramatic andthunderous fall of the state-owned Factory420, exploring both its physical demolitionand its powerful symbolic echo of ahalf-century of communist rule.Given the name Factory 420 as an internalmilitary security code, the ChengduEngine Group was founded in 1958 toproduce aviation engines, and saw yearsof prosperous activity. Now abandoned,the factory awaits its destiny. Sold formillions to real-estate developers, it will betransformed into an emblem of marketeconomy: a complex of luxury apartmentblocks called 24 City.Constructed around eight dramaticinterviews, punctuated by snippets of popsongs and poetry, along withbeautifully-shot footage of the demolition,24 City excavates the debris of collectivememory and emphasizes the thinboundary between fact and fiction inpost-revolutionary Chinese history. It doesso by weaving into this oral history threefictional monologues delivered byprofessional actors. The intervieweesrepresent three generations with ties tothe factory: former factory workers,contemporary workers, and their children.An absolutely mesmerizing experience, 24City attempts to understand the complexityof the social changes sweeping acrossChina by observing the impact ahalf-century of Socialism has had on theChinese people.Reviews• "One of the most original filmmakersworking today. Without nostalgia butwith sensitivity and depth of feeling,Mr. Jia is documenting a country andseveral generations that aredisappearing before the world’seyes." - Manohla Dargis, The NewYork Times• "The most important filmmaker in theworld." - Stuart Klawans, The Nation• "Poignant and charming. Eloquenttestimony to a China that is vanishingwith each swing of the wrecking ball….The memories of the workers in theirfactory microcosm, and tellingdocumentaries like these, keep thepast alive, so that later generationswill know what once was, and what’sbeen lost." - Mary Corliss, TimeMagazine• "24 City brings huge stretches oflong-repressed history to life on anintimate scale. Jia, filming with a calm,probing ruefulness, quietly unlocksthe floodgates of memory as a crucialfirst step toward personal and politicalliberation." - Richard Brody, The NewYorkerNotes• Official Selection, Cannes FilmFestival, 2008• Official Selection, Toronto FilmFestival, 2008• Official Selection, New York FilmFestival, 2008Item no. : ZK05970446Format : DVDDuration : 107 minutesCopyright : 2008Price : USD 395.00________________________________________________________________________________________________________Email: inquiry@learningemall.comLearning Rendezvous LimitedWebsites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk12
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