Painter and Poet No. 2

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s T

The Tale About the Enamored Painter

Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all

Painting

Leaving aside the Musica Picta series (1987), Pilař rarely worked with recordings of physical performances in his videos. In his art study Painting, he composes an artistic space from three motifs: dance choreographies,

Painter

Painter finds half photo of a struggling dusky actress, falls for her, completes her portrait, and love blossoms through art.

Painting

A film about the act of creation, in which the representation of the artist's different emotions and her relation to environment shows how the creative process develops to its end.

A Man Paints A Woman

In a sunlit studio, a young woman is getting ready to have her portrait painted by a young man. The woman is curious to see how she is perceived. She spends her life carefully projecting an image of herself, but what tes

Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter

Painting

There is a young man squeezed by life and work, he feels that life is meaningless. Until he came across that painting. In that painting, there is a woman enjoying her breakfast peacefully. Every night, after the heavy wo

Prof at Home Painting

In the months before he passed away, Milford Graves created the paintings that were displayed at the Fridman Gallery and Artists Space by vibrating the paint to the frequencies of old reel-to-reel practice tapes and the

Painting No. 2

2.5 min | 16mm | colour | sound

Imaginary Painting

A documentary about the life and works of the maestros of Imaginary Painting School who made Iranian popular old style Khialisazi or Coffee-House Painting.

Can't Close a Painted Eye

On her way home through the forest, Inez finds Carmen, bleeding and surrounded by broken mannequins.

The Neo-Impressionist Painter

A painter is seen in his studio with his model. A buyer comes in, and the painter shows him a number of his paintings, all of them based on puns, including one of a devil shooting pool. Eventually, the buyer purchases al

Four Paintings by Edward Povey: Edward's Look

One shot as Edward Povey takes in the exhibition and reflects on what's come up and where he is, right then, in his creative journey

Painted Love: Our Story

This is a lifelong love story that endures as times change in China. When Rao Pingru's wife Mao Meitang passed away, he began to paint memories of their lives – together and apart. He looked back and reflected, on love a

How To Kill A Painting? - The Making of Meurtre du tableau

A behind the scenes look at the making of the short film Meurtre du tableau. Released on its anniversary, this exclusive features unseen footage and unused scenes. All created by just two people with passion, in one smal

12 Paintings of Submission

Lech Majewski opens up the world of Jacek Malczewski, a symbolist painter from the turn of the twentieth century. In a wordless visual dialogue, the director recreates Poland’s history from the World War I to the present

Painting with Pixels

Behind-the-scenes video covering the groundbreaking digital post-production process of color grading the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou".

I'm Painting a Self-Portrait But All I See Is My Sister's Face

An animated short documentary about Alicja and Bożena Wahl, identical twin sisters and visual artists, based on excerpts selected from over 450 diaries kept by Alicja for nearly 50 years and the artistic work of both sis

Paintbrush

Made up entirely of stills, 'Paintbrush' presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website. By detailing the information given by each user on their profile, the film explores themes surrou