Painter Movies

A painter unleashes his craft onto a blank canvas.

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

TV-Documentary about the German painter Anselm Feuerbach

A one-of-a-kind cinematographic experiment. A grotesque fairy tale, staged in the real lives of the characters. A completely self-produced movie,...

Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.

Going into my interview with Laurel Greenfield, I thought the majority of our conversation would be about her inspiration for painting food and why...

Lyandrea, a queer Boricua painter, immerses themselves in their craft, revealing the quiet dedication behind each brushstroke.

The artist, whose father died in the war, begins to paint the sadness he experiences under the influence of drugs. However, because he was under the...

A young painter's hopes, fears, and dreams emerge while he struggles to put together his portfolio.

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

TV-documentary about the German painter Carl Spitzweg

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.