Nick e Libby Parsons vivono felicemente assieme al figlioletto Matty in una lussuosa casa a largo della costa occidentale, dove tengono cocktail e collezionano opere d'arte. Una sera, durante un romantico week-end in barca, Libby si risveglia in stato confusionale trovando tracce di sangue su di lei e per tutta la barca. Nick è scomparso e la polizia vede nella moglie l'unica possibile sospettata. Al processo, Libby viene giudicata colpevole di omicidio e condannata alla reclusione, durante la quale decide di affidare Matty alla sua giovane insegnante Angie. Ma quando le visite in carcere di Angie e Matty si interrompono all'improvviso, Libby fa di tutto per ritrovare le loro tracce e capisce di essere stata vittima di un complotto.
Italia 1600. Michelangelo Merisi, in arte Caravaggio è un artista geniale e sovversivo che vive con il peso di una condanna a morte e su cui sta per allungarsi l’Ombra di un implacabile potere occulto. Un’inquietante figura è stata infatti incaricata di indagare sul pittore che - con la sua vita e la sua arte - affascina, sconvolge, sovverte. L’esistenza di un genio nelle mani di un’Ombra.
Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her own fears.
In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
To save his father, a master forger sets out to steal an invaluable painting with the help of a motley crew of specialists.
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
A short documentary on how people view art and its value in today's society.
Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.
‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.
Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? – A Tri-Colored Operetta.’ Death and the Maiden unravels the story behind her creation.
"The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister Crowley.
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are home before the curfew.
Grazie alle lettere dell’artista e alle testimonianze dei suoi contemporanei, questo commovente docufilm rivela l’affascinante storia del profondo, intenso legame tra Van Gogh e l’arte giapponese e il ruolo che l’arte di questo paese, mai visitato dall’artista, ebbe sul suo lavoro. Oltre a indagare la tendenza del japonisme, Van Gogh e il Giappone ci guiderà attraverso l’arte del calligrafo Tomoko Kawao e dell’artista performativo Tatsumi Orimoto per comprendere appieno lo spirito e le caratteristiche dell’arte del Sol Levante.
Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about contemporary art, touching meetings with the closest people and places in Bulgaria after 50 years of separation. "Flying with Fins" is a film about the constant search for meaning in art and life. Alzek Misheff, artist - rebel and experimenter, leads us in this philosophical and aesthetic journey through time, space and ideas.
Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.
Short interview with Clive Barker about Midnight Meat Train, his artistic process, and his paintings. Includes a tour of his painting studio.