Movies: Art

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This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their coo...

A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas' film Summer Hours, and its approach to art....

A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings....

The genesis of To Open Eyes: A Film on Josef Albers developed from Arnold Bittleman's appreciation for Albers while Bittleman was a student at Yale University in the 1960s. Wanting to preserve Albers’s teaching method—learning by doing—Bittleman set ...

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The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing?  Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting ever” and contemplate what it would be like to be there yourself....

Emerson Hayes is a 60-year-old sculptor who lives in a caravan and works from an old shed in the back corner of her daughter’s coastal egg farm. When she is informed that her most acclaimed and last remaining work on public display is being replaced,...

A transgender girl runs away from home and is invited to live with a strange photographer who pushes her to help him pay his debts....

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblett. One of New Zealand’s most successful and internationally prominent living painters, Gimblett has been working in America since 1962. The filmmakers...

Inés and Tavi, two old friends, reconnect after years apart. Despite their opposite personalities and lifestyles, their bond remains unbroken. Inés, a theater enthusiast, strives to return to her studies and break free from a relationship that stifle...

Ideas are a confusing concept. When an emerging surrealist pioneer of French art is faced with a stagnant period, he must comply with bizarre forms of inspiration taking that might re-light the flame of his once innovative self. ...

Filmed over three years, the documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return to England after 25 years in California. As he approaches the age of 70, he decides to re-invent his painting from scrat...

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James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York City....

A disillusioned teenager in the city follows a stranger to The Woods, and ends up learning about plants, their queerness, and a more beautiful purpose....

A look at the man behind the legend, capturing the real Andy Warhol, as an artist and as a person, as he travels through China, from Hong Kong's glitter to the mystique of Peking's Forbidden City. Set in the Far East, the story begins with the openin...

Gilbert Gottfried was world famous for his comedy, but most people didn't realize that he was also a very talent visual artist! Inspired by his passing in 2022, his daughter, Lily Gottfried, made a documentary short about her father's hidden talent....

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life....