Movies: Art

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as wel...

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood....

The film discusses the cultural impact of “pichação”, a Brazilian form of graffiti, on the streets of São Paulo and its international influence as one of the main cornerstones of Street Art....

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version)....

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A sequel to Día de la visibilidad cis. A parody film that speaks for the inclusion of cis people in the arts....

Many know Munch as the man who painted The Scream, but his complete works are remarkable and secure his place as one of the world's great artists. Munch 150 goes behind the scenes to show some of the process of putting the exhibition together - as we...

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock po...

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....

Yaazhi, a mythical creature once sworn to protect its land and people, fails and abandons the battlefield. As it flees, the real war begins—a battle within the mind. When a protector turns deserter, can redemption ever be found?...

The remarkable story of Howard Finster...

Sandy and Alejandra are two young women who live together with Lexa, an artist with a multiple personality who is preparing her new exhibition. however, the romance between these two personalities will be in danger, not only because of their inabilit...

A failed filmmaker tries to make peace with his conscience...

The film is a documentary record of the passed stage of the life of the creative association "Buryatsky Underground" ("BATO") for 6 years of its existence....

A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Clifford George....

A man works in a dystopian office. He copes by thinking about beautiful paintings during breaktime. Ants crawling out of his skin and a strange coworker interrupt his peace of mind but they remind him of his past as an artist....

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6...

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel Stuart who almost seized power in 1745, was not in fact him. Keen to mak...

Focusing on the self-narration and visual language of the mounted police, ‘A horse is a horse of course of course’ reflects on how police horses are treated as just another of the many apparatuses police use for the maintenance of social control syst...