Artist Movies

Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.

Artist and author Tove Jansson talks about her thoughts and life at home on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki and in her cottage in the outer...

A personal, accessible look at an artist - Kevin Barnes, frontman of the endlessly versatile indie pop band of Montreal - whose pursuit to make...

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van...

In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creating their art, even when there is no promise of...

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass...

Claude Lelouch was a Jewish child in occupied France. In this documentary, he talks about the trauma he still feels from that experience, but also...

A documentary about the creative process of Latvian artist Ilmārs Blumbergs, also featuring poet Imants Tilbergs who is trying to write one and...

A visual artist falls in love with his muse from whom he hides the fact that he is losing his sight. He descends into madness and shuts out the world...

Dreaming in Black and White is a portrait of Singapore artist Tang Ling Nah. The film takes us on a journey into Ling Nah’s inner...

William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved...

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga who sensitively and...

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...

Six artists from different walks of life vie to win the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, the only juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government.

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period...

An intimate portrait by documentary filmmaker Albert Solé that puts a new perspective on the work of Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist...

The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Marthe. The artist recorded their relationship on...

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and translator, were a typical and...