Art Movies

A neo-noir tale of photography and murder. On the verge of fame, Damien Drake abruptly quits his dark photography dubbed, The Death Series. As Damien...

Pioneering artist Lillian Schwartz demonstrates the human input -- integrity, artistic sensibilities, and aesthetics -- that goes into producing early...

Robert McGinnis' career as an artist is explored from the 1950s when he gained fame as a painter for Dell paperback book covers, through the 1960s whe...

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and...

A creature is born from the cosmos. In his journey through the void he searches for what it means to be human. Marching he soon finds himself chased b...

A short experimental film about processing internal stress outwardly through the creative process.

At home at her Virginia farm, photographer Sally Mann reflects on the controversy surrounding her earlier collections while forging ahead with new wor...

Frida Kahlo: declared a symbol of Mexican national heritage, made into a cult figure by the women's movement, praised by the likes of Picasso and Bret...

Set in a world where human beings are digitally uploading their consciousness, it is GIRL’s turn to make her decision. Will she decide to join her fam...

Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much artists like Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali have influenced...

A man struggling through modern day muddle is troubled by an imperfection in a painting.

At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where h...

An imprisoned artist struggles to create a portrait that will satisfy his patron. At the end of a fateful day, in the face of despair, the artist reso...

After his mother's death, a young man edits the family's home videos to bring back her image. As he delves into the occult he begins to reveal the par...

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was...

An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. It was all filmed on the heat of live action of the first NOVA Con...

A documentary about Gian Lorenzo Bernini, creator of the Baroque sculptural style. It shows more than 60 masterpieces exhibited in Villa Borghese, Rom...

Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained...

Lino Tagliapietra, considered by most as the greatest glassblower in history, is a mentor, motivator, and visionary. Bridging the divide between Itali...

After Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism charges, this documentary explores the climate which has permitted...