Art Movies

The life of a young man, left to spells and monsters, according to the paintings by Leonor Fini.

A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire...

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

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of...

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved...

A painter and his model. A couple. A gaze. A painting that captures a moment, an emotion. The Portrait of a Bird.

Memories have the power to haunt us forever, whether or not they actually happened. For Margot, the man named Dan who stalked and tormented her for...

This artist profile of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag was commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries to accompany an exhibition titled "Kamala Ibrahim Ishag:...

This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardinal-Schubert are...

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"...

Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the...

I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint,...

In 2002, documentarian made his first "Art Safari" style film about the German photographer Andreas Gursky. It contains the ‘famous’...

The Legend of the Miraculous brothers according to the paintings of Beato Angelico.

For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...

A girl who loves art, but has a lot of pressure from her supportive father as he wants her to be successful, teaching her the ”right kind of...

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them....