Movies: Artists life

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Portrait of David Hockney is made up of a limited number of shots, observing the periphery details of his flat and studio. Each view is held so as to focus on its particular qualitie...

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Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020...

Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aero...

This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury in the form of a trip to England in which we retrace his life, visiting the apartments he lived in, the studios in which he recorded his albums, his school friends and the venues in which he gave hi...

Octavio Ocampo is the creator of the metamorphic style painting technique, a technique of overlapping and juxtaposing realistic and figurative details within the images he creates. This is his story....

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career....

Rasheed, a struggling stand-up comedian, tries to make it to his first paid gig in Hollywood while avoiding disastrous mishaps and moonlighting as a ride share driver....

Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming the mistress of famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. After Rodin's death, she concentrated on her work as an...

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old crowd....

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his ...

Seven independent filmmakers in San Antonio, Texas share a house together and attempt to follow their dreams....

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfol...

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impet...

When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Andrew Johnstone has befriended and subsequently saved from slaughter. The garrulous herdsman is enthusiastic to exp...

An in-depth look at the torturous process of writing a novel from an artist who echoes Henry David Thoreau by living in the wilderness to create inspiration....

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A surrealist home movie, filmed by Luis Buñuel in Cadaqués in 1930, focusing on Salvador Dalí's father and his wife....

Documentary about the artists Sigrid Hjertén and Isaac Grünewald....

Writer Sung-jun encourages his once-actor friend Yeon-woo to act again....