Movies: Art

A cinematic backdrop, created by Douglas Gordon, for Rufus Wainwright, in which the singer's eyes are filmed in slow motion and overlapped. The film is shown here accompanied by Wainwright's Sonnet 10 - but the film was also shown as a video backdrop...

A video puzzle using mathematical principles and prime numbers, daring the audience to decode it's journey....

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture....

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Experimental research and dissemination documentary about current contemporary art that compiles the opinions, experiences and anecdotes of artists, gallery owners, curators, museum directors and experts....

12-episode docuseries on the life and art of Italian baroque painter Caravaggio....

An experimental art space in the desert holds a board meeting which struggles to stay on track....

"Ideas are like fish. If you want the big ones, you have to go deep. You can't force them. You just wait... in stillness." - David Lynch...

A woman goes from dreams deeply to sunken worlds....

A movie about an artist that had a vision about art and he had expressed that in his paintings, designs, fashion designs and photography and make virtual reality exhibition and virtual reality artworks that people can enjoy and feel it....

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

Our Precious Autumn follows Ami, a young manga artist struggling with burnout. After several sleepless nights, she collapses and awakens in a dreamscape, facing three encounters that help her rediscover her reason for drawing....

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It's 1997. Distorted guitars rule the world. In an aging Chinese restaurant, a father and his punk-rock son struggle with their familial roles as they realize they each desperately need something from the other....

In Sink (get it?), each video clip is accompanied by the audio clip from the video that preceded it....

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

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance....

An imaginary insight into Pablo Picasso's creative mind and painted creatures and characters. We enter in his head and walk with him the intricate maze that was his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche and came out ...

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."...

In the early 20th century, Lazar -a taciturn woodsman- asks the disenchanted portraitist Arkadi to immortalize his child. The execution of this portrait will unsettle both men while revealing their inner fears and change their outlook on life....