Kanopy (Firm)
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, inspired by the Tate Museum's "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde" exhibition, Anna Sui adds a romantic and bohemian vibe to her Spring 2014 collection. Surf's up at Peter Som! The designer puts his spin on surf culture for his Spring/Summer 2014 collection. Plus, at Creatures of the Wind, Shane Gabier and Chris Peters look to Greek mythology, particularly at Hyperborea, a paradise where the sun shines...
22) Foreign parts
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York’s premier fashion designer, Carolina Herrera looks to the Kinetic Art movement and Venezuelan artists, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto, resulting in a graphically sophisticated Spring/Summer 2014 collection. After, not only a relaxing but also, an inspiring vacation in Mexico, Christian Siriano takes us to la Isla Mujeres--The Island of Women—for the warm weather season. Tory Burch gives...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, his collections have become some of the most anticipated to grace the catwalks of New York City, for Spring 2014, Alexander Wang is having a '90s moment. Men's shirting fabrics play a major role, as did Alexander Wang's logo which is laser cut onto tops, dresses and gloves. Designer Prabal Gurung is thinking about a bold, confident, colorful woman with a hint of danger; it is all about "femininity with a...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, only Marc Jacobs can combine a frat party, Burning Man and a post-apocalyptic beach and come up with the Spring/Summer 2014 season’s most covetable pieces -- dark ,Victorian and richly embellished! Zac Posen looks to 19th century French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, to inspire his ultra-feminine and luxurious show. For Lacoste Creative Director, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, it is game, set and match! The tennis...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the Ralph Lauren Collection gives cargos the ultra luxe treatment. Lauren, the 7th Avenue rainmaker of timeless elegance, makes safari chic a definite Spring 2015 reality! Tory Burch looks to Pablo Picasso and the effortless allure of his muse, artist Francoise Gilot, for inspiration. For Jason Wu, the key word is “beauty.” Wu looks to the nonchalant style of Charlotte Rampling, and he also gives a nod...
28) Vito
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years until his death from AIDS in 1990, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community's fight...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When thousands of people concerned about growing economic inequality gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York City on September 17, 2011, there was little indication that they would fundamentally transform American political debate and ignite a full-scale national and global protest movement. But within a year, the Occupy Wall Street protestors had done just that.This powerful collection of short films, made by Occupy protestors on the ground, tells...
30) Windfall
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Wind power: it's sustainable...it burns no fossil fuels...it produces no air pollution. What's more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That's what the people of Meredith, NY first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town's failing economy with a farm of their own - that of 40 industrial wind turbines. But when a group of townspeople discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community,...
31) After Stonewall
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. It captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting...
32) Our city dreams
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Five women. Five artists. One city. In this "lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination" (The New York Times), filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists whose inspiration is fueled by living in the "cauldron of creativity"--New York City. The artists--Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon--are at different stages of life and have widely varying cultural backgrounds; each has...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance and is often referred to as Harlem's poet laureate. This film shows how Hughes successfully fused jazz, blues and common speech to celebrate the beauty of Black life. Hughes' Dream Harlem presents a vision of the esteemed poet in present-day Harlem and makes an important case for Hughes' impact on hip-hop and the spoken-word community. This multi-layered documentary includes...
34) 16 Acres
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The rebuilding of Ground Zero is the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex construction project in recent American history. The struggle to develop these 16 acres of 'sacred' land has encompassed 12 years, 19 government agencies, and over {dollar}20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, various constituencies - politicians, developers, architects, insurers, local residents, and relatives of 9/11 victims - profess conflicting...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The collector explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father's compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong journey through the art world from the 1950s to 2006. Viewers are taken on an extraordinary path inside one man's obsessive submersion in art and its influence on the artists, art dealers and family members...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery is a fascinating four part series that focuses on the history of the African American experience in New York, urban archaeology, and social activism. Part One - The Search, explores the search and discovery of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. It examines the archeological dig that resulted in unearthing the remains of some 400 African men, women and children. Part Two - a History, presents...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In a country where 58% of African American 4th graders are functionally illiterate, The Lottery uncovers the failures of the traditional public school system and reveals that hundreds of thousands of parents attempt to flee the system every year. The Lottery follows four of these families from Harlem and the Bronx who have entered their children in a charter school lottery. Out of thousands of hopefuls, only a small minority will win the chance of...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. Author Jonathan Franzen, an idiosyncratic trombone technician, and a septuagenarian bird-tour leader are among the lively cast of characters in this charming, lyrical documentary that transports the viewer to the dazzling, hidden...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A home of one's own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists? In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves out of urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. They believed that owning one's home went a long way toward controlling one's fate. At...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In a hidden corner of Brooklyn, change is anything but straightforward...Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence is a documentary that explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods. It’s the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of an urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial...