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Artists on Artists: 12 Short Films Presented by This Long Century

The Foundation

29m

Directed by P. Staff • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom

Originally conceived as a gallery installation, THE FOUNDATION explores the complex legacy of gay fetish artist Tom of Finland via a portrait of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles and the community that has formed around it.

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    A song by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington inspires this ecstatic visual poem, which celebrates human connection, creativity, and diversity.

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    38:08
    We Were Lost in Our Country

    We Were Lost in Our Country

    Directed by Tuan Andrew Nguyen • 2019 • Australia

    The large-scale painting known as the Ngurrara Canvas II is many things to many people. But to Australia’s Aboriginal Ngurrara people it is a map, made from memory, of a place where their ancestors lived for over sixty thousand years and a direct...

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    Bronx, New York, November 2019

    Bronx, New York, November 2019

    Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2021 • France
    Starring Michell Segre

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