Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill.

Lucinda Urrusti: Painter

This is a portrait of painter Lucinda Urrusti (Melilla, Spanish Morocco, 1926), who came to Mexico in 1939 with her parents and brother as refugees of the Spanish Civil War. For Lucinda, what matters most in life is art

Sky's the Limit - the Painters of the Extreme

Windowless gable walls were graffiti painters' early targets, particularly in urban areas under renovation, and since 2012, monumental graffiti is in full rebirth especially in Paris' 13th arrondissement. Through a desig

Painted in Blood

Malik, an aspiring painter, takes a job as a security guard at an art museum to make extra cash. However things quickly become terrifying when the figure inside one of the paintings starts speaking to him and walking aro

The Young Painter

A 1922 silent film about the title young man.

Remaining Paintings

This work is, just the shades of the raw film emulsion, a work that creates an image. Using the double emulsion technique, three-dimensional multi-layered raw film and it created a unique shadow. Production without takin

A Story of Crazy Painter: Gwanghwasa

The Story of One Painting

Today, indifference to each other, devaluation of the other person's personality have become, unfortunately, the norm of life. The habit of ignoring the desires and aspirations of another person, not even allowing the th

Rembrandt, Painter of Man

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe to numerous museums and private owners in order to film the works of ar

A Planet Painted by Hand

In the desert of the American southwest, scientists are simulating the colonisation of Mars. They follow protocols, record data and live according to precise schedules. During their breaks, day-to-day life takes on the a

Automotive Action Painting

Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans of paint over the tarmac. As the light rises, along with the level of traffic, the cars spread

The Master Painter

A young painter becomes the apprentice of an old master who is working on his final great work. Meanwhile, the young painter falls in love with his master’s niece.

Discovery in a Painting

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in whic

Inde Est. Blackberry painting

Inde Est is the title of the artistic contribution presented by cinema critic and situationist theorist Enrico Ghezzi at the ancient Church of San Ludovico in Venice for the third Internet Pavilion: The Unconnected (2013

Being Painted 9.5mm

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Pompeii, City of Painting

This critofilm analyzes painting in Pompeii between 59 and 79 AD, the year of the eruption of Vesuvius. Through long continuous shots, various works are presented, focusing in particular on the styles of three painters a

How I Stole a Painting

The story of one of the most radical performances in art history told by German artist Ulay, who in 1976 decided to steal Hitler's favorite painting from Berlin's national museum and hang it in the home of a Turkish immi

The scream painting

this experimental documentary explores the authentic and unfiltered nature of the human condition, offering an intimate reflection on the inherent reality of human existence.

Beatrice Cenci (On a Painting by Carravaggio)

In 2003 Chase had been directing his SF Film Workshop since 1998. He suggested that his students that year edit their own version of Beatrice using the original footage from the film. The results became ON A PAINTING B

The Painter

short from of Series “The Art of silence: pantomimes with Marcel Marceau and his partner Pierre Verry”. Mime makes the invisible visible and the visible invisible. Marceau’s sometimes comical - but always graceful - int