"Artist+at+work"
Artist at work
Two egg-shaped clown performers try out new ways to impress audiences.
Joel Shapiro: An Artist at Work
This film features “Conjunction,” a large-scale bronze sculpture by American artist Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), which was commissioned by FAPE in 1998 and installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada the following year. The Shapiro sculpture was FAPE’s first site-specific project.
Michael Singer: An Artist at Work
This film documents the artist, Michael Singer, and his creation of the site-specific work Courtyard Garden and Sculpture, for the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. The piece was commissioned in 2006, and installed in Athens in 2007.
Elyn Zimmerman: An Artist at Work
This film features “Mkusanyiko wa Marafiki” (Assembly of Friends), a large-scale sculpture, by American artist Elyn Zimmerman (b. 1945), that groups six related geometric forms around a granite-rimmed pool. It was commissioned by FAPE in 2002 for the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and was installed in June 2004.
Dorothea Rockburne: An Artist at Work
In May 2009, Montreal-born American artist Dorothea Rockburne began work on a mural honoring General Colin Powell and his family, who are originally from Jamaica. The mural depicts the sky over Jamaica on the night General Powell was born. Rockburne painted the 40x16 foot mural on canvas at the Queens Museum of Art, New York in collaboration with ..
Jonah, or the Artist at Work
A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
Working Class Artists
The film shows works of art by people of various occupations who are engaged in fine art in their free time. It was achieved through interviews in which people talk about the world of work - a world of no freedom, necessity and coercion in which they do not see themselves as individuals. Painting enables them to escape from everyday banal reality i..
Artistic Migrant Workers
The documentary about Zhu Xiaoguang, a man came to Beijing with the dream of being a director, he used his DV to record all these happiness and sadness in Beijing...
