Art Movies

More than 40 years ago, Bas Jan Ader decided to go on an adventure. In a tiny sailing boat, the Dutchman set sail across the ocean. Nine months later...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

A privileged sculptor's uninspired career takes a sudden turn when he experiences struggle for the first time, and accidentally creates a masterpiece.

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his...

Elles Kiers and Sjef Meijman lived intensively with four Bunte Bentheimer pigs for seven months. During the slaughter month they had their beloved...

A short animation in which characters from 39 paintings in the Frans Hals Museum move from one artwork to the next.

Inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. The visual direction of this film is heavily influenced by Salvador Dalí,...

A girl who loves art, but has a lot of pressure from her supportive father as he wants her to be successful, teaching her the ”right kind of...

Using over 50 years of archive footage, this film looks back at the life and career of David Hockney.

In Sink (get it?), each video clip is accompanied by the audio clip from the video that preceded it.

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance,...

Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but...

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars,...

An Intermission is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year...

April 15, 1874, boulevard des Capucines, Paris: a group of young feverish painters shunned by the official Salon and mocked by the classical masters,...

Tells the history of skateboard art and its evolution through the decades, as iconic and rebellious skateboarders and artists give firsthand...