amy: so talk about woes so unusual about haskell wexler. example, how he filmed "medium cool" about the protest outside the dnc, both fiction and documentary all caps i. >> he really open the door to this hybrid filmmaking which now has gained so much traction and one of the most interesting faces document or cell makers are working on code. ant is extraordinary, he was artist. he was able to have one foot in the world of hollywood and understand how to create and evolve the artistry of filmmaking as well as to have one foot in the world of activist politics. and bring his artistry into that world to activate that world, to tell compelling stories, to help people. i know this is one of the most interesting moments for him in american history right now when there is an electoral season going on and he was very politics.n electoral and people are in the streets, especially around the black lives matter movement. he was very active until the day he died. amy: i want to go to a clip of " medium cool" from 1969. >> you say you have come to do so

haskell wexler died yesterday. hhe was 93 years old.y was one of america's leading 20th century abstract artists, becoming known for his geometric shapes and simple color schemes inspired by the world around him. stephanie baron is senior curator at the los angeles county museum of art. >> the humanity comes from his uncanny ability to distill the visual and the physical that he sees and whether it's a leaf or an awning or a rock, things that we might just walk right by, he would pick up and he would ponder and he would find the essence in them and distill it into a very simple form. >> brown: during world war ii, kelly painted camouflage patterns on military tank cutouts to fool german forces. after the war, he moved to paris to study art on the g.i. bill. he returned to the u.s. in the 1950s, his bold geometric paintings left some viewers wondering just where the art was, while others found themselves drawn in. >> i'm always stunned at how much it seems to affect people, and there is a strange ability that these works have to communic