Art Movies

Cleto Rojas, a peasant painter in Venezuela, discusses his artwork. From movies and Roman mythology to his own dreams and scenes of rural life, Rojas...

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the...

Nothing destined this child born in Marseille in 1921, and from a modest background, to become an avant-garde artist. At 12 years old, the one who is...

Wrestling with grudges and an insurmountable bout of artist’s block, a young woman has until sunset to create her magnum opus.

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics...

“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show...

Home movie from Man Ray with a view of his home/gallery

Documentary film about the official view of art in the Third Reich and state funding of artistic practice.

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period...

In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...

"Who else but Whistler made us see that fog was beautiful or love the night?" asked Oscar Wilde, sometime friend of the irascible artist who is the...

An intimate portrait of the Franco-Iranian painter Davoud Ghanbariha, filmed in the outskirts of Paris. Through a dialogue between his voice and his...

Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.

A huge collection of Russian modernist paintings enters the art market and European and American museums. Is it fake or real? And who is the...

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically...

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

Documentary on the art and culture of Florence in 15th century Tuscany and, in particular, the work of Eary Ranaissance painter Sandro Botticelli...