Art Movies

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.

Xing, a young artist struggles to balance his passion for art with the expectations imposed on him by his single mother. Personal aspirations and fami...

Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on five continents, the documentary tells the story of graffiti from its origins...

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from...

A young artist struggles to capture the beauty of a young woman who has been recently crippled and bound to a wheelchair.

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art...

In this brand new episode, master illusionist and showman Derren Brown plans to pull off the perfect crime. He’s bet renowned art collector Ivan Masso...

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits m...

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor),which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to crea...

By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divine feminine, Santa Shakti reveals the Sacred Power...

A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artwor...

Your War (I'm One Of You) chronicles the life and career of Chicago's Tim Kinsella, frontman of ever-shifting band Joan of Arc and '90's pioneers Cap'...

A surreal, experimental, minimalistic animated film that dives into the inner recesses of creativity, imagination, longing and inspiration. Taking pla...

Experimental research and dissemination documentary about current contemporary art that compiles the opinions, experiences and anecdotes of artists, g...

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuo...

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a maximum security facility in a foreign country, and y...

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. The film follows rappe...