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RADIO // Experimental Composers
Peter Edwards: Casperelectronics
Hosted by Joe Ahearn
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Last Days! Artist/inventor/designer Peter Edwards discusses his Casperelectronics creative technology venture and his DroneScape installation at the Clocktower with curator Joe Ahearn. The exhibition closes September 28, 2012.

Artist/inventor/designer Peter Edwards discusses his Casperelectronics venture and his 2012 DroneScape installation at the Clocktower with Curator of installation and Performance Joe Ahearn. The installation consists of ten inter-connected "...

Originally aired 9/17/12
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RADIO // Rush Interactive
Joseph Nechvatal
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Computer viruses as a creative strategy? Pioneering digital artist Joseph Nechvatal believes they are. The Paris and New York-based artist speaks with host Michael Rush about his decades-long experiments with images, music and "viral" interventions.

Computer viruses as a creative strategy? Pioneering digital artist Joseph Nechvatal believes they are. The Paris and New York-based artist Nechvatal speaks with host Michael Rush about his decades-long experiments with images, music and the...

Originally aired 6/4/10
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Oscar Special: Michael R. Roskan and Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Oscar Special: recorded at the Berlin Film Festival in early 2011 with Michael Roskan, writer, and Matthias Schoenaerts, lead actor, about the Belgian thriller Bullhead, a movie about corrupt cattle farming nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.

A segment we have highlighted in recognition of the film's 2012 Academy Award nomination, originally aired as part of Schaefer's 61st Berlin Film Festival Special: A fact-inspired Belgian thriller about farmers injecting cows with illegal hormones...

Originally aired 2/21/11
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RADIO // Historic Audio from the Museum of Modern Art
Cy Twombly: An Artist's Artist (1994)
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During MoMA's 1994 Cy Twombly retrospective curator Kirk Varnedoe brought a stellar group of contemporaries: Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente and Richard Serra to speak all kinds of things about the mighty scrawler in their midst.

During MoMA's 1994 Cy Twombly retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe brought a stellar group of contemporaries − Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente and Richard Serra − to his table to speak all kinds of things about the mighty scrawler in...

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RADIO // Living History
Bookforum: Strange Bedfellows
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An eclectic book reading organized by Bookforum, the literature-focused project of Artforum, at the New Museum featuring writers Thomas Frank, Rachel Kushner, Rhonda Lieberman, George Saunders, and Choire Sicha. Recorded Feb. 2013.

A reading event produced by Bookforum, the online literature-focused project of Artforum, held at the New Museum in New York in February 2013 and featuring Thomas Frank, Rachel Kushner, Rhonda Lieberman, George Saunders, and Choire Sicha. Thomas...

Originally aired 2/25/13
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Bobby Fischer Against the World
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Bobby Fischer Against the World by documentarian Liz Garbus and partner Rory Kennedy kicks off HBO’s 2011 summer documentary series. Perhaps the greatest chess player ever, he became a cold war hero/villain, a fugitive, and arguably a madman as well.

Documentarian Liz Garbus, who is partnered with Rory Kennedy, recounts the incredible but true saga of America’s troubled Bobby Fischer, perhaps the greatest chess player ever in Bobby Fischer Against the World which kicks off HBO’s 2011...

Originally aired 6/6/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Vincent Cassel, Mesrine
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Mesrine, a two-part, four-hour biography of the notorious French bank robber, jail breaker and killer Jacques Mesrine, has already earned Vincent Cassel the Best Actor César for his mesmerizing portrait of France's one-time Public Enemy No. 1.

Mesrine, a two-part, four-hour biography of the notorious French bank robber, jail breaker and killer Jacques Mesrine, has already earned Vincent Cassel the Best Actor César for his mesmerizing portrait of France's one-time Public Enemy No. 1. In a...

Originally aired 8/20/10
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RADIO // The Interview Show
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, Part 1
Hosted by Will Corwin
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In an action-packed interview, host Will Corwin joins artist David Hockney in rolling around the English painter laureate's gargantuan studio in matching wheelchairs (for convenience sake, not necessity). Sir David darting from painting to painting...

Originally aired 1/5/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Viva Riva!
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made the first movie in the Republic of the Congo in 25 years. Host Stephen Schaefer sits down with the writer/director of the lurid film where prostitutes, a priest, lesbians, and sadistic killers mirror the local reality.

Djo (pronounced Joe) Tunda Wa Munga has created the first movie made in the Republic of the Congo in 25 years, Viva Riva! Host Stephen Schaefer sits down with the writer/director to discuss this new dramatic film. Unabashedly sexual, violent...

Originally aired 6/20/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Shemar Moore, Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman presents Shemar Moore as the soulful, sensitive, would-be lover of the title character. Host Stephen Schaefer finds that it's a role he says is real, not fantasy.

Actor Shemar Moore proudly owned his bi-racial heritage as he became a reigning hunk on daytime's The Young and the Restless and deepened further still while working and expanding his career horizons in film and stage. Diary of a Mad Black...

Originally aired 2/21/05
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Catherine Deneuve, Potiche
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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The renowned Catherine Deneuve discusses why she values a relationship with the director of a film, what the legendary Luis Bunuel was like to work with, and why after only two Hollywood movies she returned to France.

Catherine Deneuve's extraordinary half-century reign as the queen of French cinema is being celebrated with the release of her latest hit, the Francois Ozon comedy Potiche (Trophy Wife) and her first American retrospective, a 25 film...

Originally aired 3/14/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Chloë Sevigny, Mr. Nice
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

Join Stephen Schaefer as he sits down with Chloë Sevigny to discuss her new film Mr. Nice.

A fashionable "It Girl" at 17 thanks to a New Yorker profile, Chloë Sevigny has emerged nearly 20 years later as an Oscar nominated talent (Boys Don’t Cry) and a fashion icon who now has her own designer line. In the reality-based-drug-...

Originally aired 8/22/11
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RADIO // The Interview Show
Fred Tomaselli
Hosted by Will Corwin
Radio show

In this on-site visit to artist Fred Tomaselli's studio in Williamsburg--for which Will thanks the kind Greg Volk and Bruce Pearson--Fred and Will discuss the Williamsburg scene, offering more than proof enough of why this whole Williamsburg oral...

Originally aired 3/12/10
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Tanaz Eshaghian, Love Crimes of Kabul
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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Iranian born Tanaz Eshaghian came to the U.S. at the age of six and has grown up to be a documentarian. Her latest work, spotlighted in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual Human Rights Watch Festival for 2011, is Love Crimes of Kabul.

Iranian born Tanaz Eshaghian came to the U.S. at the age of six and has grown up to be a documentarian. Her latest work, spotlighted in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual Human Rights Watch Festival for 2011, is Love Crimes of Kabul...

Originally aired 7/11/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Gerardo Naranjo & Maria Deschamps, I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a Explotar)
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

A fan of French New Wave, Italian neorealism and American pop culture, Gerardo Naranjo tells how his Romeo and Juliet tale of two rebellious Mexican teenagers differs in so many ways from its Hollywood counterparts especially in its sexual frankness.

A fan of French New Wave, Italian neorealism and American pop culture, Gerardo Naranjo tells how his Romeo and Juliet tale of two rebellious Mexican teenagers differs in so many ways from its Hollywood counterparts especially in its sexual...

Originally aired 11/3/08
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Noah Miller & Logan Miller, Touching Home
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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At 28, twins Noah Miller and Logan Miller made a promise to the memory of their recently deceased father, who had died of a ruptured aorta, alone on the floor of his jail cell: They would make a movie within the next twelve months.

At 28, twins Noah Miller and Logan Miller made a promise to the memory of their recently deceased father, who had died of a ruptured aorta, alone on the floor of his jail cell: They would make a movie within the next twelve months. Four years later...

Originally aired 6/4/10
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Stephanie Sigman, Miss Bala
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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At 24, Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman delivers a star-making film debut in this thriller. Writer-director Gerardo Naranjo presents her as Laura, a kidnapped beauty queen contestant whose ordeal is told primarily through her eyes.

2011 New York Film Festival Special: At 24, Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman’s star-making film debut in the thriller Miss Bala presents her as Laura, a kidnapped beauty queen contestant whose ordeal is told primarily through her eyes. Cast from a...

Originally aired 10/3/11
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Audrey Tautou, Delicacy
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
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At Manhattan’s Empire Hotel in a room with a spectacular city view, host Stephen Schaefer sits with one of France’s best known stars, now in the US for a new offbeat romantic comedy — in French — called Delicacy.

At Manhattan’s Empire Hotel in a room with a spectacular city view, host Stephen Schaefer sits with Audrey Tatou, one of France’s best known stars (the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Sophie Neveu...

Originally aired 4/2/12
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Dena Kaye, Danny Kaye's Centenary
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

As custodian of her mother and father’s legacy, Dena Kaye – the only child of Danny and Sylvia Fine Kaye – remains discreet about growing up with a multi-talented world famous father whose accomplishments are being celebrated during his centennial.

As custodian of her mother and father’s legacy, Dena Kaye – the only child of Danny and Sylvia Fine Kaye – remains discreet about growing up with a multi-talented world famous father whose accomplishments on Broadway, radio, movies, TV, the symphony...

Originally aired 12/17/12
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Tippi Hedren: Animal Activist, Hollywood Icon
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

The star of two now classic pictures, Tippi Hedren looks back on her strained relationship with the controlling director Hitchcock and forward to her Capital Hill appearance on behalf of the "big cats" she defends at her California Shambala preserve.

Alfred Hitchcock made Tippi Hedren a star in two now classic pictures, The Birds ('64) and Marnie ('65) but her relationship with the filmmaker deteriorated over his obsessive controlling desires, a subject which is dramatized in...

Originally aired 8/27/12
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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

On the phone with the pioneering director to talk about his 2011 3-D film about the 32,000 year old Chauvet Neanderthal caves, his lifelong fascination with the subject, and how he came to be allowed into such a restricted, fragile, historic place.

A phonecall with the pioneer of the Seventies New German Cinema,Werner Herzog who has outpaced his contemporaries Wim Wenders and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder with internationally successful dramas (Aguirre The Wrath of God, ...

Originally aired 5/16/11
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RADIO // Experimental Composers
Popol Vuh: Part 1, Cosmic Space Rock
Hosted by David Weinstein
Radio show

A special segment on the German Prog Rock band Popol Vuh and its founding father Florian Fricke takes us through the astages of his explorations from early electronic rock, soundtracks for Werner Herzog, ambient, fusion, psychedelica and new remixes.

David Weinstein speaks with Johannes Fricke, independent curator and son of the late Florian Fricke whose band Popol Vuh was an innovating force in early electronic, ambient, psychedelic, fusion, world, and progressive rock in the 1970s. This...

Originally aired 5/9/11
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RADIO // Experimental Composers
Peter Coffin: Music for Plants
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A collection of tracks recorded for the pleasure and benefit of plants. In 2007, with this simple instruction, artist Peter Coffin inspired a stellar collection of New York artists and musicians to make music to grow by.

A collection of tracks recorded for the pleasure and benefit of plants. In 2007, with this simple instruction, artist Peter Coffin inspired a stellar collection of New York artists and musicians to make music to grow by. The Music for Plants...

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RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles
Scott Speedman, Barney's Version
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Radio show

Spanning three decades, Barney’s Version cast Scott Speedman as Boogie, the artistic writer and best bud of Paul Giamatti’s Barney Panofsky in the film version of the late Mordechai Richler’s semi-autobiographical novel.

Spanning three decades, Barney’s Version cast Scott Speedman as Boogie, the artistic writer and best bud of Paul Giamatti’s Barney Panofsky in the film version of the late Mordechai Richler’s semi-autobiographical novel. As youthful friends...

Originally aired 1/26/11
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