Fashion, art documentaries, short films and more in Learning Centre DVD collection

You can borrow the DVDs or watch them in the Learning Centre VRC Space. Loan period for DVDs is 2 weeks.

DVD Collection contains for example

Textile art, fashion and beauty, for example:

• The history of fine fashion
• Indigo, a world of blue
• Eco luxury : fashion and conscience
• Tokyo streets (Japanese fashion)
• Documentaries of fashion designers, for example Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs
• Beauty queens: Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder

Art and artist documentaries, including photography, for example:

• Tove Jansson’s and Tuulikki Pietilä’s travels in Europe, summers on Haru island, and Moomins
• Havana : the new art of making ruins (Cuban modern art and artists)
• Robotic Art : transformations (documentary of Robotic Art Exhibition in Paris 2015, about art and technology)
• Robert Mapplethorpe :  a photographer of identity
• Salvador Dali in New York
• documentaries of modern art and art history

Short films, animation and avant garde films, for example:

• Golden age of Warner Brothers cartoons
• Kinokompo -series (Finnish short films)
• The origins of scientific cinematography
• Consolation service / Eija-Liisa Ahtila
• American avant garde film 1947-1986
• Fluxfilm anthology
• The American comic strip

Architecture, for example:

• a documentary of Alvar Aalto’s Munkkiniemi home and other documentaries of architecture
• Shakespeare’s Globe
• The American skyscraper & Louis Sullivan (a documentary of the first skyscrapers)
• the life and works of architects, for example Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & De Meuron, Rem Koolhaas

Design, for example:

• The genius of design : the compelling five part series on design that shaped our lives
• Design (Hoover, Concorde, Walkman, Jaguar, Vespa, Swatch, Leica and more)
• Helvetica (a documentary of typography and graphic design)
• Potters at work
• Glassworking processes & properties
• Design : understanding the elements

More information:
Information specialist Anja Lehtokari, [email protected]
Learning Centre
Visual Resources Centre (VRC) at the Learning Centre