Philip Haas

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​ Philip Haas is an American artist and filmmaker. His exhibition of film installations at the Kimbell Art Museum, "Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons," was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top ten museum shows of 2009 Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Lincoln Center in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for this body of work. His feature film Angels and Insects, set in Victorian England, was nominated for an Academy Award. Other feature films include the highly regarded The Music of Chance (1993), and Up at the Villa, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas. In 2008 and 2010, he had one-man shows of paintings and film installations at the Sonnabend Gallery. in New York City. Haas's 15 feet (4.6 m), fiberglass sculpture Winter (after Arcimboldo) was unveiled in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in September, 2010.

Most Popular Philip Haas Trailers

Total trailers found: 15

Angels and Insects Trailer (1995)

10 September 1995

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home.

Up at the Villa Trailer (2000)

14 April 2000

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth Trailer (1988)

18 March 1988

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven .

The Situation Trailer (2007)

07 February 2007

The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.

Magicians of the Earth: The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

A documentary on Australian Aboriginal art. The fist part is about a group of desert tribesmen who retell their legends by creating three large and elaborate ground paintings.

Magicians of the Earth: Kings of the Water Trailer (1991)

04 June 1991

Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints the religious houses of the vodun.

The Music of Chance Trailer (1993)

23 June 1993

Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

Young Man's Dream and a Woman's Secret Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Filmmaker Philip Haas traveled to the southernmost tip of Madagascar to meet Efiaimbelo, a man in his mid-sixties who works as a funerary sculptor.

Seni's Children Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in the Casamance region in southern Senegal.

The World of Gilbert & George Trailer (1981)

20 November 1981

Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world.

The Blood Oranges Trailer (1997)

07 September 1997

Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies.

Lathe of Heaven Trailer (2002)

08 September 2002

In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain.

Money Man Trailer (1992)

05 August 1992

MONEY MAN is a documentary film about an artist, J. S. G. Boggs, who draws money. Boggs draws his "notes" (as he calls them) with the same face as regular U.

Gilbert and George The Singing Sculpture Trailer (1991)

21 September 1991

"Gilbert & George first presented the ‘Singing Sculpture’ in 1969, then repeated it over the next years in the UK, Europe and Australia, as well as New York for the opening of the Sonnabend Gallery in 1971.

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures (straight lines, circles, spirals).