Painting Movies

Henri Rousseau started to paint in Paris around 1880, at the age of 40. This self-taught artist was friendly with the poet Apollinaire, Robert...

A view of the life and works of the late Alex Colville, the celebrated Canadian painter. Shows the influence on his life and works of his experience...

This critofilm illustrates the relationship between figurative art and numismatic decorations. The commentary lists the main iconographic themes,...

This documentary brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. Both epic and surprisingly intimate, the...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process...

The term “critofilm” was coined by Ragghianti himself in 1948 to denote a new critical methodology, inaugurated precisely by...

This critofilm analyzes painting in Pompeii between 59 and 79 AD, the year of the eruption of Vesuvius. Through long continuous shots, various works...

A critical analysis about Andrea del Castagno's "Last Supper", a Renaissance painting housed in the Church of Sant'Apollonia in Florence.

A film about three of our leading visual artists, Bhupen Khakar, Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram. It takes, as its point of departure, a glass mural...

The artist Mateo Vilagrasa from Castelló, one of the greatests creators of the end of the twentieth century, who was quadriplegic for 15 years...

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20...

A doctor unrelentingly tries to convince a phobic guy to come out of his isolation room.

The Portable Studio is a short documentary following Jenny Aitken on a day of Plein-Air painting by the sea in Edinburgh. Jenny is a professional...

After the tragic passing of her father, Isla is trying to reconcile with his legacy by attending three completely different job interviews in one day.

An older Nopporn looks at a simple painting and recollects the story behind it. As a young student in Japan, he once met and fell in love with...

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

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

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in...