Art Movies

A budding young artist's dreams clash with his Chinese immigrant mother's wishes; they later seek reconciliation.

The new hire and black membership desk assistant at an exclusive museum becomes a special part of the membership experience and questions his new...

Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer),...

“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait.” (Mariano...

Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter. Shedding fresh light on...

Art in an Age of Mass Culture pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA's now famed exhibition, "High and Low:...

Artists Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby travel the country finding art in their surroundings before being unexpectedly forced to consider what it would...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at...

Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds. "I tried to bring something very extreme into the...

In this graceful study of the balance between solitude and community, artist and chef Jim Denevan roams across the US, transforming landscapes into...

A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

Laura Cumming takes a journey through more than 500 years of self-portraits and finds out how the greatest names in western art transformed...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925 while recovering from a streetcar accident that left her permanently disabled. Many of her 200 paintings directly...

Three-part film about the Dutch painter and poet Lucebert who died in 1994. Director Johan van der Keuken made three short films about his friend and...

Much like Fred Rogers and Bob Ross in the United States, Claude Lafortune was a staple of French-Canadian television. The beloved children's...

Downtown has become a frontier of creativity where new ideas flourish. From raw and tragic beginnings, it has grown from a groundswell of spontaneous...

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the...

Before trying to save it, you first need to know: what cat are we talking about? A rambling investigation that goes off on tangents—lots of...