Russian Painters: The Years of Art Nouveau

Documentary on Russian painters of Art Nouveau period

Russian Painters: The Impressionist Years

Russia's rich cultural heritage features a fascinating array of artistic works. This in-depth documentary examines the lives and art of some prominent Russian impressionists, including Vasily Polenov, Wassily Kandinsky,

John Gilpin

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better accompaniment than the drawings of Ronald Searle. The BFI commissioned four films fr

Max Ophüls, le peintre de l'amour fatal

Documentary on Max Ophüls and the making of Madame de...

Dante's Inferno

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.

Mindscape

In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.

Picturesque Epochs

The protagonist of "Picturesque Epochs" is Mária Gánóczy (1927-), a painter and a film aficionado who comes from a family of female artists as far back as her great-grandparents. She brought up nine children with her hus

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, the so-called ‘painter of the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of painters’, was the first Jewish painter of the modern era. Oppenheim came to represent the emancipation of German Jews in the ninet

A Soul Haunted by Painting

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

The Colonel's Shower Bath

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

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Art of Darkness

Ben and Liz are a married couple still coming to terms with Liz's recent miscarriage. Too distraught in the weeks after it, she quit her nursing job, and Ben is struggling to hold on to his accountancy job after a round

Elsie Haas, Femme Peintre, Cinéaste d'Haïti

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a s