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Kasimir Malevich: Transfiguration WA-623
45 min / 1990 / VHS
College through adult
Malevich's avant-garde Suprematism was adopted as the Soviet Union's
official art movement after the 1917 revolution. He maintained
a spiritual dimension in his paintings and tried to achieve pure
abstraction that led to his extraordinary, ultra-minimal Black
Square and White-On-White. This video, made by the State Museum
of Russia, tells Malevich's amazing story and visually parallels
his paintings with forms in Russian Orthodox religion, in nature,
and in man-made structures, all accompanied by original experimental
music.
Käthe Kollwitz WA-171
44 min / color / 1982 / AC, RC / 16mm, VHS
High school through adult
“I want my art to have a purpose. I want to have an effect on these times when man is so perplexed and in need of help.” So wrote Kollwitz, one of the 20th century’s great graphic artists. This sublime and intensely moving dramatization, produced by the British Arts Council, focuses on the final months of Kollwitz’s life in Moritzburg, Germany, in 1945. Looking back over her momentous life, she remembers working in politically turbulent Berlin before and after World War I, the trauma of her son’s death in the war, and the loss of her husband.
Katherine Dunham PE-33
15 min / color / 1988 / EBEC / VHS
Middle school through adult
Katherine Dunham, a woman of many talents, discusses her life as a dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and teacher. Dunham is known for her pioneering work in African-American dance and played an instrumental role in changing the status of the black dancer from entertainer to artist. From a dance rehearsal at Southern Illinois University, where she is still an active instructor, Dunham discusses her career and the many obstacles she had to overcome. This program is especially appropriate for junior and senior high school audiences interested in the achievements of outstanding African-Americans.
Katie Malone PE-60
50 min / color / 1995 / CTC / VHS
Middle school through adult
Obie award-winning actress, Julie Portman, transforms the childhood memories of her mother into a family scrapbook in this one-person play. This story of Julie’s mother, a free-spirited woman of uncompromising individuality and conviction who played the piano regardless of what happened through 52 years of married life, is reenacted with grace and humor by her daughter. Katie Malone is a woman who struggled to remain true to herself when confronted by life’s challenges and obstacles, not the least of which was her domineering husband.
Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama of the West
ED-482
86 min / 2001 / FL / VHS
High school through adult
In 1996, two college students stumbled upon a human skull in the mud of the Columbia River. It turned out to have “Caucasoid” features and was over 9,000 years-old sparking a major controversy to determine who this “Kennewick man” is, and if he makes problematic the concept of native American. Scientists demanded a right to study the bones, but the Umatilla Tribe believed the bones to be sacred and ancestral and should be buried. This video examines all sides of the fascinating and ongoing dispute.
Kids for Sale ED-98
22 min / color / 1979 / MMM / 16mm
Middle school through adult
This hard-hitting documentary investigates commercial exploitation of children by television broadcasters and advertisers. Produced by Action for Children’s Television, this film graphically illustrates how commercial television shapes children’s attitudes, insights, and values. It demonstrates what television is and, more importantly, what it could be. This film is an excellent stimulus for discussion among groups concerned with television’s powerful influence on children.
Kindred Spirits: Contemporary African-American Artists WA-381
30 min / color / 1992 / PMI / VHS
Middle school through adult
The cultural legacy that black Americans inherited from their African ancestors remains an active force in their art in the latter quarter of the 20th century. The voices and artworks of several contemporary African-American artists (John Biggers, Charles Searles, Bessie Harvey, Renee Stout, Jean Lacy, Ed Love, and Lois Mailou Jones) are interspersed with remarks and poetry recitation by Maya Angelou. This program is based on the highly acclaimed exhibition Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art in 1989.
King Tut: Tomb of Treasure ED-490
25 min / 1978 / CRYS / VHS
Middle school through adult
Made when the Tut treasures toured the USA, this film reveals the wonders found in the only unpillaged, ancient Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb, that of Tutankhamen. He was the youngest of all pharaohs having died at 18 and was considered a god. Sealed for over 3000 years and opened in 1922, the tomb yielded hundreds of splendorous objects, many crafted of gold and precious jewels.
The Kiss NEW!
50 min /2006/ DVD
College through adult
Told in remarkable detail, this is the back story of The Kiss, Auguste Rodin’s 1880s sculptural depiction of Dante’s Paola and Francesca’s passionate embrace. Its perfection is a triumph in art history and has ignited the public’s imagination to become a focal point for sensuality and controversy. The artist himself despised The Kiss but the public clamored for it. So in addition to the four white marble originals, he contracted hundreds of bronze reproductions of all sizes to be sold. Adult content.
Knickknack ED-305
4 min / color / 1989 / DC / VHS
Elementary school through adult
Computer animation once again meets a wacky comic sensibility in this latest video production from PIXAR, the computer specialists who created Tin Toy, Red’s Dream, and Luxo, Jr. As a group of gaudy souvenirs from sunny locations throws a party on a bookshelf, a lonely snowman (from “Nome Sweet Nome”) locked in a glass “snowball” attempts to join the revelers and capture the souvenir of his dreams, a buxom, bikini-clad doll from Miami. Unfortunately, he applies more effort than genius to his escape-with hilarious results!
Kochuu: Japanese Architecture/Influence & Origin AR-11 NEW!
53 min/2003/ DVD
College through adult
This stunning video is a contemplative survey of modern architecture in Japan. Many beautiful examples of homes, gardens, teahouses, institutions, and modular high rises are shown to illustrate the usage of light, space, simplicity, symbiosis, asymmetry, and tradition. It clarifies how Scandinavia and Frank Lloyd Wright have influenced their designs and vice verse. Narrated in Japanese by architects with English subtitles.
Kudzu ED-104
16 min /color / 1976 / PFP / 16mm
Middle school through adult
An offbeat, witty, and informative documentary about kudzu, the ubiquitous leafy vine that seems to be devouring the South. Originally brought to this country in the 1930s as a means of erosion control, Kudzu has now taken over large portions of the Southern landscape. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu Band, and a cast of other real-life characters, as well as appearances by former President Jimmy Carter and Georgia novelist/poet James Dickey, the film illustrates how Southern folk humor and traditions have centered around this unusual botanical pest.
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