Artist Movies

WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson.

A story of self-processes, healing, and artistic exploration, following the journey of Samara, a trans artist, who sees herself in a tapestry of inner...

Two disparate strangers, a Gen Xer and a Millennial, form an unlikely bond on a rooftop after both experiencing traumatic situations.

Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming th...

While struggling to finish a painting, a young girl finds herself lost in the world of perfection and objectivity.

Conceptual visual artist Ján Mančuška died in 2011. However, in his short 39 years of existence, he managed to create a number of remarkable works, ma...

The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against musi...

A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms.

Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable life and career, illustrated by a wide range of his v...

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

Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a roc...

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics t...

A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that onl...

A frustrated art student reaches into his dreams for inspiration, only to be taken on a journey by a mysterious doppelganger.

One of the most provocative and elusive figures in contemporary art finds himself the subject of Maura Axelrod's film. Catapulted to worldwide notorie...

A young artist has a tragic accident but lives one dreamy last day visiting all the people in her life in New York City.

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the capital, so he...