Artists Life Movies

Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A...

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently...

A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.

Nine artisans on secluded Gabriola Island reveal the differences between mass manufactured and authentic locally handmade through intimate portraits...

A documentary film that can best be described as a portrait of an author about and featuring André Forcier. It is the story of an...

In the 70s, Amanda Lear was a disco queen, pop icon, model and world star. She enchanted Paco Rabanne, Andy Warhol, Bryan Ferry and David Bowie. She...

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in...

Artists Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby travel the country finding art in their surroundings before being unexpectedly forced to consider what it would...

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D.

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he...

Rasheed, a struggling stand-up comedian, tries to make it to his first paid gig in Hollywood while avoiding disastrous mishaps and moonlighting as a...

We Remember Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe transforms from Norma Jean, a cuddly teenager, into the most recognizable face and body in the world in these...

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads...

An artist struggles to come to terms with the fact that his eyesight is failing.

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Portrait of David Hockney is made up of a limited number of shots, observing the...

At the crossroads of Black literary consciousness and political struggle, the ideas of Claude McKay, Jamaican poet and novelist, laid the foundations...

An aspiring painter struggles to find passion for his art after the death of his mother.