Death and The Painter

The Painter encounters Death and decides to paint his portrait.

8mm Portrait Series - Reel #2: Lynn Shelton Paints Silk

Do Painters Die Elsewhere

Visual portrait of Bolesław Gasiński — an outsider artist whose life and art intertwined in his self-built home in Laski. The documentary, through archives and memories, focuses on his grief after losing his beloved wife

Rob Gonsalves: Surrealist Painter

World renowned contemporary surrealist painter Rob Gonsalves

Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting

Developed as an adjunct to the exhibition Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting, this 35-minute film is a co-production with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. It is comprised

Scratching and Painting on Film

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films i

NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting

A worldwide culture develops around graffiti art.

Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted Nightmares

A guilty pleasure of the mid-20th century, pulp fiction magazines were often defined less by their contents than by their provocative covers. This documentary explores the shocking art that brought life to these lurid pu

Night Painting

From beneath paint buckets and boxes filled with dusty belongings the end of an era emerges.

The Voice of a Paintbrush

Armando, a shy and intelligent 20-year-old from a low-income family, is passionate about painting. He studies at an art school in central Maputo and lives with his mother in a humble home in the Hulene neighborhood, near

Painting the Dandelion Resurrection

Susan Bettmann’s Painting the Dandelion Resurrection trains the camera on Vermont icon Peter Schumann, co-founder and creative force of Bread and Puppet Theater. And basically he does what the title says—he paints. Schum

Camilo Egas, A Painter of Our Time

Through multiple artistic phases of the tireless creative, Camilo Egas, the documentary pays tribute to the painter and his time.

The Joshua Painting

Upon visiting an art gallery, a young man has a visceral reaction to a painting hanging on the wall.

An Impression of Piet Mondrian's New York Studio and His Last Painting

Mondrian's last painting, Victory Boogie-Woogie, which he began in 1943, sadly remained unfinished at the time of the artist's death on February 1, 1944, from pneumonia. The painter's sole heir was the young artist Harry

Variations on a Seven Second Loop-Painting

The "theme," a seven-second loop-painting (actually closer to eight), is repeated seven times in succession before the title appears. Then, using an optical printer, the variations start. After each variation the origina

Action Painting nº 1 / nº 2

Sex as a mutual creative gesture.

Painting with light

A short documentary film about film photography and platinum & palladium printing.

Chilean Painters

A panoramic look at the history of painting in Chile, from its precursors in the first half of the 19th century to the 1970s. This film is a remarkable documentary and animated work, created by a group of animators worki

The Greatest Painters of the World: Salvador Dalí

This documentary tells the story of the life, career and influence of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali and the stunning works of his extraordinary mind.

Why Did Kai Stop Painting

Kai was once a prodigious painter, and everyone believed he would one day become a great artist. But suddenly, he stopped painting and disappeared. What exactly happened?