Explore the work of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust. A defender of free speech, Spiegelman has spoken out as book bans spread across the country.
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Austrian-born and educated, R.M. Schindler laid the foundation for what now is considered California lifestyle of indoor-outdoor living. This documentary explores his richly complex work, with its influences and illuminates Schindler’s philosophy of Space Architecture as contrasted with the International Style. It reexamines Schindler’s complicated relationship with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and his rival Richard Neutra. The film affirms the singular genius of one man, and the eternal challenge every artist faces to stay true to their vision in an effort to leave a lasting impact.
Featuring: architects Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Ray Kappe, Mark Mack, Wolf Prix; arch. historians Judith Sheine, Thomas HInes, August Sarnitz; members of Schindler's family, preservationists and owners of Schindler designed houses and many others.
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A remarkable collaboration grows between a Canadian electronics businessman with no medical training, a maverick Israeli scientist, a renowned English transplant surgeon, and a brave, 26-year old patient with a rare, seemingly incurable, cancer.
This thought-provoking and charged inquiry takes you on a journey spanning three continents, with broad implications for thousands of cancer patients, as 26-year-old Kayte, with the extraordinary support of her family, and a medical "X-Men" team courageously undergoes a potentially life-saving experiment in faraway India.
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A contemporary portrait of a small Louisiana town created at the site of the world's largest lumber mill. Through the lens of an anachronistic charm school that has guided young girls into "Ladyhood" for three decades in rural Louisiana, we explore a close knit community confronted with contemporary issues of racial conflict and economic decline in an isolated but storied place firmly located in the American South.
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The story of three young medical students, Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl, who established a new model of rural health care in the 1980s that revolutionarily changed global health care forever.
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A 1000 year history of residential architecture in North America unfolds through animated line drawings, while notable figures in the world of design and architecture (including Richard Meier, Denise Scott Brown and Robert A.M. Stern) weigh in on what a house is and can be.
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A once high-flying writer-director has left behind his family back in New York and moved out to Los Angeles in hopes of kick-starting his professional life back on track. Following a request from his teenage neighbor to film him for a high school class project, David begrudgingly allows her to expand the project into an internet series which she believes will not only be popular, but will also help revitalize his career. Gradually, though, and by no fault of his own, David begins to bumble his way up and slowly revive his career.
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Bernard Friedman is founder and creative director of Flying Mind. He directed and produced the feature documentary “n of 1” (2019), an inquiry into the nature of innovation as understood through the story of a novel approach to cancer, and the short film “American Homes” (2011), an animated 1000-year history of residential architecture in North America. He is producer of the feature documentary “Bogalusa Charm” (2017), which premiered at Slamdance; and executive producer of “Bending the Arc” (2017), which premiered at Sundance that same year. Bernard is the author of the book, "The American Idea of Home", published by the University of Texas Press. Raised in Chicago, Bernard studied History at the University of Wisconsin and Film at Columbia University.
Flying Mind is a Los Angeles based production company inspiring storytelling through documentary and scripted film.