Documentary
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Pictura
Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
ULTRA IV
Secret Mall Apartment
Grandpa Called It Art
Max Gimblett: Original Mind
Inventory
I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
Where do they all go?
Jo
Kokoschka: Work and Life
Meat Joy
Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious
Costakis: The Collector
Kaarel Kurismaa. The Limits of Timelessness
Black Pénélope
Food Design
Le Mural
SIMILAR MOVIES
Pictura
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1951
A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.Mondongo II: Portrait of Mondongo
IMDB 8.5 | Mar , 2024
“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painted my portrait.” (Mariano Llinás)Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
IMDB 3 | Dec , 1969
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.ULTRA IV
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1982
A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. PETER SUTCLIFFE preview WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 3 total sex side A SUTCLIFFE JUGEND interview & music WHITEHOUSE studio action 2 HERMANN NITSCH a study AUSCWITZ / BIRKENAU 1941-82Secret Mall Apartment
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2025
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.Grandpa Called It Art
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1944
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.Max Gimblett: Original Mind
IMDB 0 | May , 2017
Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblett. One of New Zealand’s most successful and internationally prominent living painters, Gimblett has been working in America since 1962. The filmmakers spent a week in Gimblett’s Soho loft where he and his devoted studio assistants generously revealed the techniques and philosophy behind his beautiful art.Inventory
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2008
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas' film Summer Hours, and its approach to art.I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2020
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2017
Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable life and career which has taken him from musician and pioneering stand-up to Hollywood star and national treasure.Where do they all go?
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2015
94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decoration. Endless phone conversations takes her through municipal bureaucracy and lost culture secretaries. Will she ever get an answer to the eternal question: Where does the art really go?Jo
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2025
Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.Kokoschka: Work and Life
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was a rare individual who remained lucid and passionate throughout his long life.Meat Joy
IMDB 6.6 | May , 1964
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the 'sacred erotic.' This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City."Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1964
The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature of materials and the emotional significance of shapes to combine with his collages and netherworld canvases. The director and Ernst together use the film creatively as a medium to explain the artist's own development.Costakis: The Collector
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1983
One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. Its walls were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Kandinsky, Chagall, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, and Kliun; public figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and Alfred Barr visited. Barrie Gavin met the collector in 1982 at his home in Athens. Costakis, a Greek born in Russia, passionately shares his story and those of the great Russian avant-garde artists. Their works are his legacy – without him, they would not have survived the political upheavals in Russia.Kaarel Kurismaa. The Limits of Timelessness
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
A documentary about the Estonian artist Kaarel Kurismaa shows the viewer an insight into the world of artists. Kaarel changed his creative direction several times; he explored different artistic styles. Kaarel Kurismaa laid the foundations for Estonian kinetic and sound art. He is a highly versatile artist whose creative energy is divided between painting, sound, installation, monumental art, and film. On the crest of the avant-garde wave of the 1970s, he created several important sound and kinetic objects in Estonian art history.Black Pénélope
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1991
A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses.Food Design
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2009
A look at how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing technique, history and stories influence food design.Le Mural
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2024
A documentary short by Barbara Bingley-Verseman about the creation of a monumental outdoor mural by her twin sister, LA-based Kat Bing, and Parisian artist Kekli in the lead up to the Paris 2024 Olympics