Painting Movies

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through...

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

A documentary on the artist Winfred Rembert, whose paintings depicted bigotry in America in the latter part of the 20th century.

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the...

First film by Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian.

It's been a long time since Leila, a costume girl, hasn't seen her father. A number of photos of Mr. Leila taken when he was a child made Leila...

A journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - three of the 20th century’s most remarkable...

A critofilm analysing the pittorial style of the Early Renaissance painter Piero Della Francesca.

A young artist and his friend reevaluate their contradicting perceptions on life and who they're becoming to eachother.

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to...

The film tells the story of James Morrison’s early years, painting the tenements of Glasgow, through to his dramatic encounter with a polar...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

For the last 2 years, the detective Pablo García has been working on several cases of missing people in Galicia, which have one thing in...

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures,...

The film offers exclusive and intimate insights into how and why the classically trained artist risked rejection to revolutionize the traditional...

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be...

The sculptor and painter Agueda Lozano narrates the first contacts with plastic art that she had in her native Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua;...