Art Movies

An homage piece with a significant nod towards the living sculpture-art of Gilbert and George that plays with conventional notions of gender....

A documentary about graffiti artists in the capital of China.

Anton Spielmann (18) and his two younger friends Basti Muxfeldt and Jonas Hinnerkort are living in their family homes with their parents in an...

An exploration of the work of controversial pop artist Allen Jones, whose erotic sculptures have angered feminists, challenged his contemporaries,...

A new documentary about the artist and teacher, Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images tells the story of Craighead’s artistic and spiritual...

Fred Taylor displays a number of items from the Building Centre's 'Inn Sign Exhibition' held in November 1936. Some signs in the exhibition date back...

Georgia O'Keeffe appears on camera for the first time to talk candidly about her work and her life in this 1977 documentary.

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them....

"Too much Picasso kills Picasso?" In France as in a lot of other parts of the world Pablo Picasso's art and life is on exhibition. An episode of Le...

In 1985, the artist Ana Mendieta fell naked, thirty-four floors, from the window of her apartment in New York City. The only person with her at the...

Short Black and White

Imagine buying the works of true masters, like Renoir, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Rembrant, Matisse and Raphael for just thirty US dollars! Welcome to the...

This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

16mm, black and white film, silent, 4:30 min.

Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective.

Adam - a dreamy teenager - devotes his existence to Sofia, a mature enigmatic painter. Through his eyes, their relationship nears utopia. But the day...

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.