Explore the lives of visual artists who made the Harlem Renaissance one of the 20th century's richest artistic moments. Archival footage, newsreels, and photographs recall the influential force of exhibitions, Harlem's vibrancy in the Roaring Twenties, and significant personalities such as William E. Harmon, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke. Watch African-American artists triumph over formidable odds to create lasting beauty..
The Artists explores the first three decades of video game history through the stories of the designers and programmers who laid the groundwork to redefine pop culture. For a massive audience, video games are the films of the 21st century and a primary source of storytelling. How did that happen? An entertaining account of this stunning success story, The Artists is the saga of how video games became such an influential cultural force..
Three remarkable men, John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall have created Australia's most internationally renowned architecture firm. We explore what has made these men so renowned and look at some of their unique buildings, as we follow the construction of the new Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale..
Robert De Niro, star oscarisée, rend hommage à son père, un artiste-peintre dont l'oeuvre n'a pas été assez reconnue..
Adrift in the lush, nocturnal urban landscape of THE GRAFFITI ARTIST, Nick (Ruben Bansie-Snellman) is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For this iconoclastic young visionary, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and train yards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion..
The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers..
The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist tells the inside story of Belle Gibson, the 21-year-old social influencer who duped millions of followers by claiming she cured her terminal cancer through wellness and healthy eating..
A shaman with a cell phone. An artist who paints like Van Gogh. A 3-year-old genius. And JFK's secret writer, who helped President Kennedy win a Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage. This story connects the lives of four people in a quest for life's deeper meaning. With the help of a modern medicine man, the artist searches for the spirit of his departed father among the living, in the healing red rock country of Sedona, Arizona..
A meditative short film that explores the personal struggles of an interconnected Painter and Weightlifter's quest for perfection..
A concert showcase that features music artists performing in unique settings, such as museums, temples and synagogues. The series also features interview segments with the artists..
In this romantic comedy, a 35-year-old New Yorker (Joseph Lyle Taylor, "Summer of Sam") has more experience getting out of relationships than staying in them. Features cameos by Regis Philbin ("Little Nicky") and actor-director Edward Burns ("Saving Private Ryan")..
For fear of being replaced by an artificial intelligence, a filmmaker explores the creative limits of such technology; that leads him into a loop of existential questions and philosophical reflections on art and its relationship to the origin of existence..
Two men from rural Ireland, who served as inspiration for the movie ‘Eat the Peach’, are tempted back to the Wall of Death by a charismatic Glasgow artist with something to prove. ‘The Artist & The Wall of Death’ is a story of second chances, of art vanquishing death, of embracing failure and of unfinished business..
What makes a Paul Thomas Anderson movie a Paul Thomas Anderson movie? Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia--his filmography contains some of the most well regarded films of all time. This feature length documentary explores 8 of the 9 films in his filmography, both individually and in the context of his entire body of work to see how he has evolved as an artist and to better understand the techniques and stylistic trademarks of an American auteur..
The Artist feels like they could never be the muse and The Muse feels like they could never be the artist..
Elaine Shepherd’s classic BBC documentary, introduced and narrated by John Peel. Completely wonderful, a 50 minute joy: reviews, articles, blog posts, etc. relating to The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart..
The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover..
Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper and dispenses it in the form of confetti. (BFI).
A romance between the painters and writers: Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin arises in the 20's, the golden age of Mexican art, when the seeds of modern art and education were planted..
A short film about Paul Robeson and his relationship with the USSR..
