Artist Movies

When you look at a river, what do you see? Remembering Holland by Jan Wouter van Reijen carries the viewer through the basin of the River Waal, past...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Two egg-shaped clown performers try out new ways to impress audiences.

In the quiet hum of a café, two strangers cross paths - Kabir, a doctor weighed down by unfinished work and unspoken loneliness, and Vaani, an...

A short documentary about Patrick Noze, his art and journey as a migrant in America.

Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s voyage of spiritual atonement to the Ivory Coast shortly before his death is the inspiration for Ivoirian Philippe...

A poor artist accidentally discovers the use of blood to paint his works and now he's on the search for the perfect color.

In the vastness of the Iranian desert, young artists strive for freedom, community, and the preservation of their cultural heritage in the ancient...

A dreamlike portrait of Akhira unraveling beneath the weight of her own reflection. A meditation on loneliness, transformation, and the haunting...

This film is a portrait of hypnotist and artist, Marcos Lutyens. It examines the idea of incorporating hypnotism into art through the filmmaker...

A magician desperately trying to perfect a trick as he fails to present it to others, slowly devolving into insanity.

A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

“Pat Pasloff is a strong artist within a strong tradition…She has transcended some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism, without...

While struggling to finish a painting, a young girl finds herself lost in the world of perfection and objectivity.

A comedian boards a train in New York and crosses the country to Los Angeles while attempting to make his own comedy special. What begins as an...

Alison Watt became the National Gallery's Seventh Associate Artist in 2006. This art film records her two-year residency, as she created paintings...

Alix left his native island, Martinique, and its musical culture, to study opera singing in Paris. Portrait of a young man who now embraces all his...