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Maya Lin - A Strong Clear Vision
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767055659
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767055659
Label: New Video Group
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: New Video Group
MPN: 9547
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Video Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: New Video Group
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1995
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Editorial Review:
It was for good reason this film won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Documentary, as it displays, in abundance, the emotional human responses Maya Lin elicits with her architectural designs and sculpture. There was much controversy surrounding her Vietnam War Memorial, not the least of which focused on her Chinese-American origins. Writer/director Freida Lee Mock uses conventional methods (interviews, archival footage) to follow Lin's career in chronological order. It examines her work since winning the contest in which her student model was chosen for the infamous Washington war memorial. The stark emotion evoked by Lin's sensuous and kinetic creations promises to bring tears to your eyes. Unfortunately, we learn more about her work than about the artist, whose personality is oddly absent from this film. Mock only somewhat reveals the intense focus and powerful vision that drives Lin. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A talented at the right place at the right time
Ms. Lin is best know, to those of us in the DC area anyway, for the Vietnam War Memorial.
Those of us familiar with that landmark know that hers was one of many--over 1,400--proposals for the memorial. And she, a 21 year old Yale architecture student, won.
That memorial is the beginning of this film/DVD. In fact, I learned a little more about it. I didn't know, for example, that there was some adamant opposition to it. I did know that some Vietnam vets felt it lacked the ... Read More
Rating:  - Maya Lin
Courage and focus at such an young age. Reinforces the concept of the individual vision developing beyond what would otherwise be ordinary.
Rating: - Maya Lin - A Strong Clear Vision
A compelling portrait of a brilliant artist and a surprisingly unassuming person, Freida Lee Mock's fascinating documentary takes us inside this brilliant young artist's unique process, but also lets us get to know her. What emerges is an inspiring visual document about what can be achieved when a gifted youth is given every encouragement and opportunity to pursue her muse. Must-viewing.
Rating: - asian architect, american icon
When Maya Lin was just a twenty-one year old architecture student at Yale, the committee for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial chose her proposal (a class assignment, it turns out) from a national competition of 1,441 submissions as the winning design. Then the battle began. Congress people and even Vietnam veterans opposed it, the latter caricaturing it as a "big, black scar in the earth." Others compared it to a boomerang. Lin was vilified as a communist. And a memorial designed by an Asian, woman, college ... Read More
Rating:  - 3 X longer than it ought to have been
why do documentarians need to pad their movies? this wouldve been a nice half-hour film about the building of the vietnam veterans memorial, but it gets lost in far less compelling side tales. truth be told: ms lin is just not a very compelling personality.
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