Artist Movies

Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This short film dramatically presents 18 minutes inside...

Destroying your own artwork. For many artists it is unmentionable, but Loes Heebink from Kolderveen irreparably destroyed her artwork "Fluisteraars"...

Documentary on New York Graffiti featuring art by Cliff, Phase 2, Comet, Blade, IN, Billy167, LSD OM, Ajax , Dean, Mico, Checker 170, Skylark

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in...

Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with...

A film about and with Max Ernst.

When Asriel, a painting art school graduate, is diagnosed with dementia at a shockingly young age, he and his photographer partner Iris must attempt...

Convinced that an artist is only truly appreciated after they are dead, a struggling painter plans to fake her own death, but not all goes to plan.

A visual concoction of model photo-shoots, swimming routines, filmmaking, drowning, death and holocaust.

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

A painter goes on an exile after finding out he has Guillain Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents him from painting.

A model and a photographer, after hours of trying, strive for the perfect shot but face challenges as their high aesthetic standards get in the way.

Tate Britain is now holding the first major retrospective of Whistler in three decades. This blockbuster exhibition promises to reawaken the world to...

Pleasures of the eye, David Hockney’s work has shown him to be one of the most versatile and influential artists of our time. The British...

Using over 50 years of archive footage, this film looks back at the life and career of David Hockney.

A young painter's hopes, fears, and dreams emerge while he struggles to put together his portfolio.

Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—which includes textiles and fine art...