Movies: Art

  • 2022
    Het Pad van Sien

    Het Pad van Sien (2022)

    Het Pad van Sien

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    Sien (74) leaves for her hideout on the captivating island of Vlieland. Here she recollects her memories on an old tape recorder of her turbulent life as a mother, life-drawing model, squatter and activist in Amsterdam in the sixties....

    Het Pad van Sien
  • 1954
    Artist in Montreal

    Artist in Montreal (1954)

    Artist in Montreal

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    This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their coo...

    Artist in Montreal
  • 1952
    Let's Draw With Crayons

    Let's Draw With Crayons (1952)

    Let's Draw With Crayons

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    Shows how to use and care for crayons and some of the crayon techniques. Explains creative drawing, poster making, imprinting a design on cloth and other crafts....

    Let's Draw With Crayons
  • 2014
    Fireworks (Archives)

    Fireworks (Archives) (2014)

    Fireworks (Archives)

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    This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox tem...

    Fireworks (Archives)
  • 1969
    The Creative High

    The Creative High (1969)

    The Creative High

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    Nine artists—dancers, musicians, and visual artists—in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are transformed by creativity in their search for identity and freedom. Their stories reveal how art has been a ballast while confronting old addictive ha...

    The Creative High
  • 2023
    Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben

    Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben (2023)

    Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben

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    The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his time and today a star of the younger generation of contemporary artists. ARTE is showing the documentar...

    Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
  • 2022
    Beans on Toast

    Beans on Toast (2022)

    Beans on Toast

    02022HD

    Ideas are a confusing concept. When an emerging surrealist pioneer of French art is faced with a stagnant period, he must comply with bizarre forms of inspiration taking that might re-light the flame of his once innovative self. ...

    Beans on Toast
  • 2022
    Fantasctasy

    Fantasctasy (2022)

    Fantasctasy

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    Opening a collection of university horror shorts. A disturbed artist arrives home drugged after a party, without knowing it, the dark environment hides evil forces and now it is up to her to discern what is reality and what is not....

    Fantasctasy
  • 2013
    The Ninth Wave

    The Ninth Wave (2013)

    The Ninth Wave

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    Cheng, an ambassador of Peranakan Culture in Singapore discovers a painting that propels him to leave Singapore....

    The Ninth Wave
  • 1945
    Visual Variations on Noguchi

    Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)

    Visual Variations on Noguchi

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    A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-up. The soundtrack, ...

    Visual Variations on Noguchi
  • 2023
    FLOODED REALMS

    FLOODED REALMS (2023)

    FLOODED REALMS

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    A woman goes from dreams deeply to sunken worlds....

    FLOODED REALMS
  • 2019
    Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece

    Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece (2019)

    Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece

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    A documentary about the "The Mystic Lamb" painted at the beginning of the 15th century by the Van Eyck brothers....

    Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece
  • 2023
    BAUS '93

    BAUS '93 (2023)

    BAUS '93

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    1993 recording of band Les Rallizes Dénudés performing at the Baus Theater....

    BAUS '93
  • 1956
    Tanz der Muscheln

    Tanz der Muscheln (1956)

    Tanz der Muscheln

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    Tanz der Muscheln
  • 1969
    Hustlers of Dubai

    Hustlers of Dubai (1969)

    Hustlers of Dubai

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    Dubai - the city of controversies. Six individuals go through personal insecurities, cultural pressures, money issues and the hustle of staying true to who they are. In the world that says otherwise. Is it all really worth it ? The film touches upo...

    Hustlers of Dubai
  • 2009
    Ester Hernandez

    Ester Hernandez (2009)

    Ester Hernandez

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    Ester Hernandez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for fostering community and raising social consciousness through her groundbreaking art, for her work with Creativity Explored, a...

    Ester Hernandez
  • 2006
    Benutzt und gesteuert – Künstler im Netz der CIA

    Benutzt und gesteuert – Künstler im Netz der CIA (2006)

    Benutzt und gesteuert – Künstler im Netz der CIA

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    Benutzt und gesteuert – Künstler im Netz der CIA
  • 2019
    Art & Mind

    Art & Mind (2019)

    Art & Mind

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    A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism and the unsung geniuses of Art Brut and Outsider Art....

    Art & Mind
  • 2010
    The Room at the Top of the Stairs

    The Room at the Top of the Stairs (2010)

    The Room at the Top of the Stairs

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    A young artist feels overshadowed by a charismatic and dangerous girl she's never met. Her life changes when she decides to follow in her nemesis's footsteps....

    The Room at the Top of the Stairs
  • 2016
    Hand of Art

    Hand of Art (2016)

    Hand of Art

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    An abstract artist promises to deliver twenty five paintings to an art gallery. As he fights for his creative spark and deadlines loom, he feels his world around him crumble away....

    Hand of Art