Museum

While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the features of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.

The Jundt Art Museum has called Gonzaga University home since 1997. The museum’s collection boasts more than 4,000 pieces of art ranging from Andy Warhol to Ansel Adams, from Pablo Picasso to Auguste Rodin, and from Dale Chihuly to Alexander Calder. The museum attracts visitors not just from the Gonzaga community, but from all over the country who travel to see its carefully curated exhibitions. Told through the eyes of the museum’s current director, Paul Manoguerra, this short documentary-style feature explores all that the Jundt Art Museum has to offer, and the importance of art in our society today.

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Today is Assaf's day off, but his wife Michal drags him to a museum. Over the course of their visit to a place that never changes, Assaf wonders how he and Michal have changed since they met. A chance encounter with a lovely tourist prompts Assaf to choose between a perfect stranger and the wife he knows.

From the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with clips from films which were produced shortly after the war, and pictures of museum visitors are assembled into an essay about memory.

Charles Atlas has been a pioneering figure in film and video for over four decades. Atlas has extended the limits of his medium, forging new territory in a far-reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques. Throughout his production, the artist has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working intimately with such artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima/New Humans, Antony and the Johnsons, and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as in-house videographer for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983; their close working relationship continued until Cunningham’s death in 2009.

The Tropenmuseum collection—Amsterdam's prominent museum of ethnography—is shaped by a history of violence, religion and trade. With a focus on repair and restitution, the film asks: What if the museum visited a therapist?

An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.

A tour of the place will prove that sometimes one painting is not enough.

Jane Castleton leads a farcical tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A beautiful and haunting film examining the oppressive connections between the San Francisco entertainment industries of Alcatraz and SeaWorld.

How would you see the world if life was a game with no rules and no risk? Step inside the explosive imagination of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins in this absurdist romp through the highest clouds, to the depths of the ocean and through patterns of pure harmony in between.

Michael Abbensetts’ first play for TV is a powerful, funny and shocking exposé of the racism faced by a black museum attendant in his place of work.

A curator and a visitor walk through an imaginary museum of recent German history. The focal plane follows the scenario of a tour in that the (subjective) camera simulates a stroll through a museum: in an open field, however.

For the world famous newspaper, the «Sunday Times», an English team of museum specialists determined the ten best museums of this world - Austria's Natural History Museum of Vienna was within the top ten.

Documentation of the artist being hypnotized, wandering around in an immaginary art museum and describing what he sees there. Keller took lessons from a professional hypnotist to prepare for the piece Visiting a Contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis (2006), let himself be hypnotized, and he also hypnotized others. The two-part video depicts a hypnosis session in which Keller repairs to the corridor of an imaginary museum hypnotized and describes the works which he sees there.

A companion documentary which recounts the re-opening of the Picasso Museum in Paris, the largest public collection of artist's work in the world. Come behind the scenes and witness all the preparations leading to the reopening of this Museum.