Art Movies

Documentary about the creation of the artwork Fryske Motor.

In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction....

remembering/modifying/developing is a musical belief-making system. It consists of three parts; a series of repeated and changing performances that...

Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland took filmic...

It's 1997. Distorted guitars rule the world. In an aging Chinese restaurant, a father and his punk-rock son struggle with their familial roles as...

'No Free Walls' is an in-depth look at Brooklyn's changing landscape, through the eyes of Joseph Ficalora, the founder and inadvertent art curator of...

A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the...

Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls is a 1995 American short documentary film about artist Jim Dine produced by Nancy Dine and Richard Stilwell....

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...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

In Sink (get it?), each video clip is accompanied by the audio clip from the video that preceded it.

México-raised and currently Chicago-based artist Sofía Fernández Díaz details her process of adorning found objects and...

How far would you go for your art?

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. Preserved by the...

Vacation slides are as much the butt of jokes as airline food, VCR clocks, and glamour shots. Americana artist Robert Townsend would disagree. With...

Paying tribute to artist Noah Purifoy and his Outdoor Museum, Matthew’s film ‘A Desert Moment with Noah’ rapidly animates 78 still...

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

Howard Finster, the grandfather of the Southern Folk Art movement was a pioneer that showed the world that Art can thrive outside of museums and...

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...