Credit: Herbert Matter (With Permission from NWFF)

In my thinking, Herbert Matter, Alexander Calder, and Thelonious Monk exist in the same universe (in the way Niels Bohr, Jorge Borges, and Art Tatum exist in the same universe). Today NWFF begins screening an excellent documentary about Alexander Calder’s (sadly not Monk’s) friend Herbert Matter, The Visual Language of Herbert Matter.

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  • Herbert Matter (With Permission from NWFF)

Those who liked Eames: The Architect and the Painter will also enjoy this documentary.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...