Signatures of the Soul
Oct 04, 1984 | IMDB 7
60 min Watch NowDocumentary
Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup by signing Easy Rider legend Peter Fonda as his presenter. Travelling to Aotearoa, Samoa, Japan and the United States, the doco traces key developments in tattooing, including its importance in the Pacific, prison-inspired styles, and the influence of 1960s counterculture. Legendary tattooists feature (including Americans Ed Hardy and Jack Rudy), while the closing credits parade some eye-opening full body tattoos.
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The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Gray Matters
Leonardo: The Works
Frida Kahlo
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
The Tattooist
Whiteley
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
The Haunting Lodge
Ashes and Snow
Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental
44 Pages
Shaolin Kung Fu
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
Flannery
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
David Hockney: The Art of Seeing
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
The Art of the Steal
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IMDB 5 | Dec , 2016
Exhibition on Screen's latest release celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch brought together from around the world to his hometown in the Netherlands as a one-off exhibition. With exclusive access to the gallery and the show, this stunning film explores this mysterious, curious, medieval painter who continues to inspire today's creative geniuses. Over 420,000 people flocked to the exhibition to marvel at Bosch's bizarre creations but now, audiences can enjoy a front row seat at Bosch's extraordinary homecoming from the comfort of their own home anywhere in the world. Expert insights from curators and leading cultural critics explore the inspiration behind Bosch's strange and unsettling works. Close-up views of the curiosities allow viewers to appreciate the detail of his paintings like never before. Bosch's legendary altarpieces, which have long been divided among museums, were brought back together for the exhibition and feature in the film.Gray Matters
IMDB 0 | May , 2016
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she laboured largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building –persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.Leonardo: The Works
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 2020
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IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 2017
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IMDB 6 | Mar , 2017
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IMDB 0 | May , 2017
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IMDB 8.5 | Mar , 2017
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IMDB 4.3 | Oct , 2023
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IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 2005
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IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2023
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IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2018
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IMDB 9 | Apr , 1994
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IMDB 7 | Nov , 2024
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IMDB 8 | Nov , 1989
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2009
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2012
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IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2022
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IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2010
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