Painting Movies

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the...

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

Vincent, a 36-year-old employee of an art gallery in Manhattan, has an affair with a young girl. The girl sells him a painting of a girl with a...

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...

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...

Inside his studio, painter Philip Trusttum launches into a new work. He employs ordinary house paint to create a bold, large-scale painting, tells...

In 1972, the camera eye observes Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the ambiance he has created for himself and presents a wide selection of his...

Documentary film based on the artist Akbar Padamsee.

"The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister...

Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter. Shedding fresh light on...

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures,...

A girl meets a boy at his apartment for a blind date. They quickly discover their incompatibility.

A young artist and his friend reevaluate their contradicting perceptions on life and who they're becoming to eachother.

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

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 Renaissance masterpiece painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Ambassadors” is teeming with details and hidden messages. By...

Two friends wonder about the meaning of a weird picture that one of them has framed on the wall. Maybe that absurd doodle has more sense than they...

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

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