Art Movies

Art documentary

About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and places and the legendary club RoXY (1987-1999) was c...

Documentary about belgian illustrator Félicien Rops (1833-1898) whose works combined eroticism and death in a very provocative way.

Colin Jones is of Aboriginal, Polynesian and English decent. The Aboriginal side of his family are from the Kalkadoon and Nunuckle tribal groups. His...

The Dolls of Lisbon is NYC's Antagonist Art Movement's latest exploit inspired by the Zapatista Dolls of Mexico, a souvenir that traveled the world sy...

At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original Ame...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that lat...

Building on a sound piece of the same name, The House She Flew In On: The Video uses the framework of The Wizard of Oz but creates a new narrative thr...

Short experimental film by British artist Lucy Gunning, featuring the artist herself climbing on and around her studio walls.

An expressive short film in which examples of early and modern art are juxtaposed to reveal correspondences.

A montage, using documentary material filmed during the war, shows the beginnings of an air attack and Londoners entering shelters. From the silent de...

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 p...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, b...

In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's came...

A video for the Museum of Modern Art #ItemsMoMA screened at the Items Abecedarium. Mixture of original and archive footage.

A study of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Scotland and Japan.

A night with Bahman Mohasses famous Iranian Painter

This remastered, rare, local production from the 80s is an unfiltered look into the mind and heart of the world-renowned folk artist Howard Finster. W...

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.

This film explores the transformation of an image from color negative to color positive on one film stock. The Still life was painted its color nega...