Art Movies

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works...

The inspirational story of Marta Becket: 76-yr old singer, writer, dancer, painter, visionary, and her creation Amargosa.

Follows Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critical perspective of his work.

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and...

An extraordinary voyage of discovery to see the most impressive collection of works of art built up over two thousand years of history. VATICAN...

A Lake of the Isles homeowner and a Minneapolis chainsaw sculptor shape meaning (and a twenty foot tall pencil) from the twisted trunk of a fallen...

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he...

A fascinating look at the intersection of art, commerce, and digital ownership through the rise and crash of the NFT market.

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial...

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

Anton Spielmann (18) and his two younger friends Basti Muxfeldt and Jonas Hinnerkort are living in their family homes with their parents in an...

In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and...

A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your passion- even in the face of failure.

Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and...

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by...