Albert Maysles Movies

Produced by 20th Century Fox, this Maysles Brothers short was intended to help promote the release of Disney's Fantastic Voyage (1966) for which...

Documentary about conceptual artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude's attempt to "wrap" the Pont-Neuf in Paris.

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.

Told in the Maysles’ intimatible style, IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT captures the future corporate juggernaut at an early stage of their development....

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist...

A documentary about artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1991 grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California.

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed...

The life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world...

Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others...

A stimulating study which features concert footage and interviews with the master pianist. Includes many of his favorite pieces.

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop"...

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers...

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

ILONA, UPSTAIRS is a portrait of an artist; a glimpse at a butterfly who wants no association with her life as a caterpillar. In this mixed format...

A portrait of the late documentarian David Maysles by his daughter, Celia.

This acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center—one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century....