Manfred Kirchheimer Movies

  • 2012
    Art Is... The Permanent Revolution

    Art Is... The Permanent Revolution

    Art Is... The Permanent Revolution

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    The anger and outrage captured by graphic artists have defined revolutions through the centuries. Printmakers have depicted the human condition in...

    Art Is... The Permanent Revolution
  • 1981
    Stations of the Elevated

    Stations of the Elevated

    Stations of the Elevated

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    Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars. A moving...

    Stations of the Elevated
  • 2019
    Cinema and Sanctuary

    Cinema and Sanctuary

    Cinema and Sanctuary

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    The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This...

    Cinema and Sanctuary
  • 1966
    In Search of Hart Crane

    In Search of Hart Crane

    In Search of Hart Crane

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    Produced and directed by Hurwitz for National Educational Television (precursor of PBS), Hurwitz uses biographer and Columbia professor, John...

    In Search of Hart Crane
  • 1955
    Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

    Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

    Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

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    "Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great Soviet...

    Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
  • 1966
    The Sun and Richard Lippold

    The Sun and Richard Lippold

    The Sun and Richard Lippold

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    Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    The Sun and Richard Lippold
  • 2019
    Free Time

    Free Time

    Free Time

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    Meticulously restored and constructed 16mm black-and-white footage shot in New York between 1958 and 1960. This lustrous evocation of a different...

    Free Time
  • 2021
    One More Time

    One More Time

    One More Time

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    A coda to the suite Kirchheimer began with 2018’s Dream of a City, One More Time poignantly intercuts our last glimpses of the cycle’s...

    One More Time
  • 2008
    Spraymasters

    Spraymasters

    Spraymasters

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    Documentary that follows four graffiti artists who trace the history of graffiti

    Spraymasters
  • 2015
    Canners

    Canners

    Canners

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    Rummaging through city trash for hours and miles, New York’s gleaners gather and recycle soda cans for a nickel apiece. The stories they tell...

    Canners
  • 1975
    Bridge High

    Bridge High

    Bridge High

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    Passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded. Choreographed cables, girders and arches.

    Bridge High
  • 2017
    My Coffee With Jewish Friends

    My Coffee With Jewish Friends

    My Coffee With Jewish Friends

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    A humorous and illuminating series of coffee klatches with 20 friends that proves the old adage, “Where you have two Jews, you have three...

    My Coffee With Jewish Friends
  • 2016
    Discovery in a Painting

    Discovery in a Painting

    Discovery in a Painting

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    Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the...

    Discovery in a Painting
  • 1973
    Short Circuit

    Short Circuit

    Short Circuit

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    Manfred kirchheimer featurette

    Short Circuit
  • 2006
    Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

    Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

    Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

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    Documentary about New York skyscrapers.

    Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

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    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 1968
    Claw: A Fable

    Claw: A Fable

    Claw: A Fable

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    A poetic blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking, depicting the changes brought on by urban planning as seen in New York City and the large...

    Claw: A Fable
  • 1970
    This Island

    This Island

    This Island

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    How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.

    This Island
  • 2018
    Dream of a City

    Dream of a City

    Dream of a City

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    Between 1958 and 1960 Walter Hess and Manny Kirchheimer shot black and white 16mm film from Wall Street to midtown New York to the Delaware River....

    Dream of a City
  • 1970
    Up the Lazy River

    Up the Lazy River

    Up the Lazy River

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    Crafted from the endless wealth of images filmed in 16mm on a Bolex by Kirchheimer and Walter Hess, Up the Lazy River is the conclusion of the...

    Up the Lazy River