Painting Movies

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

After 6 months of having ended a relationship, a frustrated cartoonist and a young filmmaker meet again at an art exhibition. The glances, the...

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

Rip and Seb are college students from very different backgrounds. Rip is from a working class family and has had to fight for everything he has. Seb...

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...

As a once-passionate painter slowly loses control of his body to motor neuron disease, his devoted sister pushes him back into the world-where...

After the loss of a woman's baby during pregnancy, the strange arrival of a hand-drawn bird opens the mind of this young artist for a new start.

Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This...

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This...

This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born...

One night in an art museum, Sunny and Pippin, two girls living inside of the paintings, play a game of tag spanning the history of human art.

A critofilm analysing the pittorial style of the Early Renaissance painter Piero Della Francesca.

Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer),...

A young man is psychologically tortured by a cursed painting.

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