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Basic Bucky - DVD
Basic Bucky - DVD
This 11-segment DVD is taken from Comprehensive Design: The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller, a Dome-Encapsulated Multi-Media Traveling Exhibit (1990). The clips feature Fuller himself demonstrating his futuristic inventions through films clips on: Nature's Generalized Principles: Leverage, Tension and Compression; Pattern Integrity; Synergy; Universe as Scenario; Artifacts/Inventions: Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Car, Geodesic and Fly's Eye Domes, and Roofs over Cities; Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Euler's Topology: Angle and Frequency, The Triangle: Basic Structure; The Three Basic Structural Systems; The Vector Equilibrium. 32 minutes. DVD.
$29.95
Ecological Design - Inventing the Future DVD
Ecological Design - Inventing the Future DVD
This educational film illuminates the emergence of ecological design in the 20th century. Beginning with the work of Buckminster Fuller from the 1920s through the 1960s, continuing through the counter-culture and ending on the doorstep of the 21st century, this video follows the evolution of ecological design from the early visions of a few independent thinkers to the powerful movement it has become today. Winner of several awards, the film includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of many noted designers and thinkers such as Jay Baldwin, Mary Catherine Bateson, John Todd, Stewart Brand, Amory Lovins, Paolo Soleri, and many others. A powerful educational tool, Ecological Design provides a practical basis for learning about the environment and about our capability to design a desirable and sustainable future. Running Time: 64 minutes. DVD.

To read a review of this film written by a BFI network member, please visit: http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/Bucky.html
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$34.95
Reflections: R. Buckminster Fuller DVD
Reflections: R. Buckminster Fuller DVD
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Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award. This documentary contains footage of Bucky never seen before and never distributed in the U.S. Made for the U.S. Information Agency in 1977 by award-winning filmmaker Robert Snyder and Jaime Snyder. The film contains wonderfully intimate sequences with Fuller talking about his childhood, family and youth. One of the best films available on Bucky. Video. 60 minutes, DVD Video.
$29.95
The World of R. Buckminster Fuller - DVD
The World of R. Buckminster Fuller - DVD
Buckminster Fuller was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion and toward a sustainable future for all humanity.

This film by Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Snyder, like his other documentaries on "the greats" (Michelangelo, Henry Miller, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Casals, among others), transports the viewer into Fuller's mind and soul. Told entirely in his own words, the film is an intimate, personal and inspiring message from Fuller to our fragile world.

85 min. DVD

Also includes the short film "Modeling the Universe" by Jaime Snyder.
$29.95