Art Movies

After 6 months of having ended a relationship, a frustrated cartoonist and a young filmmaker meet again at an art exhibition. The glances, the...

A monologue about the meaning of being art, delivered by the last character you’d expect: a pair of pants. A short film by Ponchi Simán.

a young artist tired of his lonely life decides to walk through the city and reunite with someone from his past.

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked...

How did Bonnard, one of the great masters of 20th-century painting, a secretive, anxious man with an ordinary everyday life, become this undisputed...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

What is the Art of Living ? A few weeks ago, I asked myself this question, as silly in its formality as it is complicated in its complexity. In this...

Very brief view of Man Ray and his friend Ady Fidelin while at a seaside resort

A graffiti art film by vandal, Katsu. The film sees Katsu reproduce his famous skull tag over and over again, growing in scale in powers of 10 from a...

The Nazi concentration and extermination camps were places of incomprehensible cruelty, misery and death. But even here, creation took place....

Simon Schama explains the style, theme and concept of Rembrandt's late masterpieces.

Filmed over three years, the documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return to England after 25...

Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter. Shedding fresh light on...

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he...

This intimate documentary follows the journey of Bronwyn Oliver, a working-class girl from the country who became one of Australia's most influential...

Research and dissemination documentary-film about contemporary art in which more than 30 staff members of museums and galleries, visual and sound...

Belgian art historian and filmmaker Paul Haesaerts (1901–1974) made a significant contribution to the promotion of modern Flemish art. In the...

A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships. - J.S.

This short documentary traverses the off-the-wall psyche of Generation Z by way of visionary 3D artist, Scum Boy - a young South African, Jewish...