Directed by Julie Simone • Documentary • With Presley Barker, Wayne C. Henderson, Kitty Amaral • 2019 • 88 minutes

Sister filmmakers Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multiple generations jamming together, Fid...

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With May Wilson, Meredith Monk • 1969 • 34 minutes

When her husband informs her, after 40 years of marriage, that his future plans no longer include her, May Wilson, age 60, former "wife-mother-housekeeper-cook" and a grandmother, moves to New Yor...

Directed by Rauzer Alexander • Documentary • With Oscar Isaac, Laura Linney, Michael Stuhlbarg • 2019 • 76 minutes

What do Jessica Chastain, Kevin Kline, Viola Davis and Anthony Mackie all have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied under the renowned acting t...

Directed by Steve Sullivan • Documentary • With Frank Sidebottom, Chris Sievey, John Cooper Clarke • 2019 • 100 minutes

Frank Sidebottom was a performer who happened to wear a huge paper mâché head. Or he was a real person. It rather depended whom you asked. Either way, to his legion of devoted ...

Directed by Fiona Cunningham-Reid • Documentary • 2024 • 77 minutes

When does practice become protest? Or protest, poetry?

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the...

Directed by Martha Shane, Ian Cheney • Documentary • 2021 • 79 minutes

The rapid rise of emoji (Japanese for 'picture character') is a global phenomenon without precedent. Their widespread use and ability to convey complex messages have not only cemented emoji's place as an emerging digital lang...

Directed by Chris Felver • Documentary • With Donald Judd • 1998 • 25 minutes

An artist and critic, there was a considerable duality to Donald Judd (1928-1994) - he was at once a man of intellectual rigor and a multi-disciplinary conceptualist who deftly moved towards a new minimalism. In 1971, ...

Directed by Jason Cohn • Documentary • With Sebastian Roché (narrator) • 2023 • 79 minutes

From the filmmaker of Eames: The Architect and the Painter comes a new documentary about a pioneer of modern design. Architect Eliot Noyes was one of the leading pioneers of modern design during the mid-ce...

Directed by Marjoleine Boonstra • Documentary • 2014 • 52 minutes

'He wanted the viewer to step into the painting. What he aimed for was not a consumption of art, but a dialogue. He thought that art could transform the public.' -Annie Cohen-Solal, Mark Rothko biographer Painter Mark Rothko is be...

Directed by Ron Peck • Documentary • 1981 • 47 minutes

A study of the 20th century American painter's life and work.

Directed by Isabelle Rèbre • Documentary • With Sylvia Winter Pollock, Francesca McCoy Pollock, James McCoy, Helen Harrison, Peter Namuth, Terence Maloon, Dominic Gould, Rebecca Pauly, • 2020 • 82 minutes

The film tells the story of two brothers, two American painters: Jackson Pollock and Charle...

Directed by Christian Tran • Documentary • 2015 • 52 minutes

The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made 36,000 years ago and discovered 20 years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas ...

Directed by Yara Travieso • Documentary • With Rena Butler • 2017 • 74 minutes

Embracing a multiplicity of cultural lenses, LA MEDEA confronts the historically prevalent image of the hysterical, dangerous, foreign woman and offers a revolutionary female figure willing to destroy her world in the...

Directed by Pascal Goblot • Documentary • 2023 • 70 minutes

For decades, it was believed that the beginnings of art had emerged in Europe, 20,000 years ago at Lascaux, then 36,000 years at Chauvet...Recent researches are shaking up our understanding of art.

The art of prehistory is much richer ...

Directed by John Akomfrah • Documentary • 1996 • 45 minutes

John Akomfrah, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing c...

Directed by Joe Medeiros • Documentary • 2013 • 86 minutes

How did an unassuming housepainter from Italy pull off the greatest little known art heist in modern time? Was his motivation more than money?

Writer-director Joe Medeiros traces the path of Vincenzo Peruggia, charged with the 1911 thef...

Directed by Chris Teerink • Documentary • 2012 • 72 minutes

'Conceptual artists leap to conclusions logic cannot reach,' Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) said in a rare audio-interview from 1974. Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in Chris Teerink's sensitive ...