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Helvetica

Helvetica

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007...

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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any re...

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.1

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to ic...

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My Kid Could Paint That

My Kid Could Paint That

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who walked away from the reproducible and the commodifiable, migrated to the American Southwest, worked...

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Chevolution

Chevolution

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. This image has thrived for the decades since Che Guevara's death and has evo...

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