Art Movies

A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities...

Two Penny Magic (Zweigroschenzauber) starting off with a little magic trick. It then presents an array of images from swimmers, bicyclers, murderers,...

"CURTIS (2004, Sundance, documentary, 35 min) is a loving portrait of Curtis Wheeler (1950-2003), a dancer and artist fighting to keep his...

This documentary follows Irada, a passionate, dedicated, kind-hearted woman who is following her dream of doing what she loves. Handcrafted art. As...

Short Black and White

Set in a former train factory turned art gallery in Milan, Italy, Classe Media explores the contradictions of being a working class artist. This...

Howard Finster, the grandfather of the Southern Folk Art movement was a pioneer that showed the world that Art can thrive outside of museums and...

In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's...

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.

A 30-minute film about Helen Frankenthaler, who invented the stained canvas at the age of 24 and influenced a whole generation of "color field"...

In the dining room of the abandoned house a white, faded entity feeds on her pieces. Memories keep her here and time transforms her into something...

Pupa symbolises a dark room; a room that contains the mental conflicts of human identity. Our protagonist is an artist who is left alone in that...

A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels...

Paying tribute to artist Noah Purifoy and his Outdoor Museum, Matthew’s film ‘A Desert Moment with Noah’ rapidly animates 78 still...

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

Two brothers move silently through the mundane world, carrying an unseen offering of light. As they journey from place to place, dancing and...

Takeda is a film about the universality of the human being seen thru the eyes of a Japanese painter that has adopted the Mexican culture.

A satirical look at the contemporary art world and art sales.

The story of the bond between an aged blind artist, about to create his last masterpiece and a rebellious young artist girl who comes to assist him.

Ed Ruscha made his very first art in his native Oklahoma, but soon became attracted to Los Angeles . Curator Margit Rowell has examined his extensive...