Buckminster Fuller

Acting

Buckminster Fuller

Born — Died

1895-07-12 — 1983-07-01

Place of birth

Milton, Massachusetts, USA

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13 titles

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

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1970s · 5 titles

Dolphin poster
7.0

A documentary about dolphins that cover the recent story of a Japanese massacre of dolphins as well as other footage of swimming with dolphins.

Dolphin

1979

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family poster
6.5

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S. militants of the '60s, such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, with reenactments of their Chicago trials (i.e., the "Chicago Eight," etc.). Other figures of cultural interest from the time, including Alan Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller, are interviewed or featured. The filmmaker indicates his belief that powerful forces in the U.S. government worked together to suppress American radicals. This view, widely disbelieved at the time, has since been confirmed.

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

1971

The World of Buckminster Fuller poster
7.0

Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improve human lives. He spent much of his life traveling the world lecturing and discussing his ideas with thousands of audiences. Now more relevant than ever, this film captures Fuller's ideas and thinking told in his own words.

The World of Buckminster Fuller

1974

Isamu Noguchi poster
NR

Isamu Noguchi talks about his career in this documentary featuring Ezra Pound.

Isamu Noguchi

1972

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NR

Mick Glasheen, an architect and pioneer of early cinema and experimental film, created work that was heavily influenced by media theorists. His video Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller, 1970, is a re-mixed recording of a Buckminster Fuller’s lecture given at UNSW, presenting Fuller’s ideas on science, metaphysics and the universe, merged with just as radical techniques of moving image production, creating a multi-layered expression of image, voice, and sound.

Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller

1970

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