Modernism Movies
- 2007
Helvetica
Helvetica7.22007HD
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typefa...
- 2018
The Blue Years
The Blue Years02018HD
Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetr...
- 1929
Our Modern Maidens
Our Modern Maidens5.91929HD
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Me...
- 2022
Alternate Spaces
Alternate Spaces02022HD
A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.
- 1973
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance6.11973HD
In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing thei...
- 1987
Mark of the Hand
Mark of the Hand01987HD
Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of his inspiration” in this vivid Arts Council docume...
- 2012
HU
HU7.22012HD
A symmetrically divided building: on one side, an important public hospital, on the other, a bewildering ruin. On the horizon, Rio de Janeiro, public...
- 1966
A Charming Girl
A Charming Girl61966HD
Ruxandra, a young woman just out of school, decides to become an actress, convinced that personal charm can keep instead of talent.
- 2018
The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music
The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music02018HD
The Unanswered Ives is the first film about Charles Ives (1874-1954),an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of internati...
- 1988
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'01988HD
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
- 2024
The Watergaw
The Watergaw02024HD
Iain Syme returns to his family’s farmland in the Scottish Borders and attempts to sell it off to a mysterious local landowner. However, his brother C...
- 2019
Neutra: Survival Through Design
Neutra: Survival Through Design02019HD
This insightful documentary feature from PJ Letofsky serves as a profile of iconic Austrian-American Architect Richard Neutra, whose work and legacy h...
- 1969
The More We Are Together
The More We Are Together01969HD
A portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates.
- 2010
Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs
Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs02010HD
Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of extraordinary m...
- 2021
Arne Jacobsen’s Modern Denmark
Arne Jacobsen’s Modern Denmark02021HD
Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Denmark’s greatest architects. His ideas were ahead o...
- 2007
Otto G. Carlsund - en svensk modernist
Otto G. Carlsund - en svensk modernist02007HD
Documentary about the Swedish modernist painter Otto G. Carlsund.
- 1988
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'01988HD
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fanta...
- 2018
Het Ding (untitled, 1957)
Het Ding (untitled, 1957)02018HD
Next to the Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel stands one of Rotterdam’s most famous sculptures, an untitled structure created by Russian modernist artist Na...
- 2001
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance02001HD
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
- 2017
Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée
Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée102017HD
In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements...