Arnold Eagle

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

Hans Richter's documentary on the game of chess. Narrated by Vincent Price. Outlines the history of chess from ancient times to the present and traces its origins in India, China, and Persia. Prints, painting, illuminated manuscripts, live photography and rare chess pieces are shown as well as chess figures designed after Picasso and Braque.

American sculptor, Alexander Calder, creates around the workshop. The film features several of his kinetic sculptures-- Wild moving figurines that spin, undulate and perform circus acts. The film ends on a hanging moon mobile, completing our wacky trip.

A portrait of Shalom, watchmaker, toymaker, carver and engraver, who at the age of seventy, turned to painting. The Hassidic heritage from which his work is derived is evoked in the naive but beautifully concise paintings in which he retells the ancient stories of the people of Israel.

Existing in a liminal space, breasts float among various bodies of water. A literal description that doesn't do it justice...

A film biography of Isamu Noguchi, a foremost modern twentieth century artist whom Muckminster Fuller called "the comprehensive artist without peer in our time." Speaking directly to his audience ...