Virgil Oldman is een excentrieke expert in de kunst, bekend en gewaardeerd over de hele wereld. Zijn leven heeft nog weinig te maken met liefde en gevoelens voor een mysterieuze vrouw, die hem uitnodigt langs te komen in een villa voor het beoordelen van een kunstwerk.
De belevenissen van een grote variëteit aan leden van de Londense kunstelite. Zo is daar de amorele kunsthandelaar Art Spindle die een kunstgalerie exploiteert met zijn protegees Beth en Paige. Spindle is vastbesloten het beroemde doek Victory Boogie Woogie van Mondriaan te bemachtigen van een Duitse kunsttycoon, maar hij heeft te maken met een groep rivaliserende bieders.
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.
Tim Jenison, een utivinder uit Texas, (Video Toaster, LightWave, TriCaster) probeert om één van de grootste mysteries uit de kunstwereld op te lossen: Hoe slaagde 17de eeuwe Nederlandse Meester Johannes Vermeer ("Meisje Met De Parel") erin om zo foto-realistisch te kunnen schilderen, 150 jaar voor de uitvinding van fotografie?
The odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right.
A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.
JORDAN is a lonely Manhattan painter. When GINGER, a suicidal 19 year old squatter calls Jordan by accident, she threatens to kill herself if he doesn't meet her for lunch. This dark dramedy is 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' on lithium. 16mm film
Short experimental film based on the theme of waiting, and how with time good things will come.
Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he acquired his anatomical knowledge.
Three very different people — a quantum physicist, a neuroscientist (Sheetal Sheth), and an FBI agent — find themselves drawn into a spiraling mystery. Confronted with a mysterious car accident, the three must interpret clues that defy common sense. Their collective quest takes them from science to art to music to mysticism in a widening search for answers. After an intense outward chase to satisfy their rational minds, the trio realizes the answers they desire lie buried deep within themselves. As each seeker begins to embrace the true nature of reality, each is rewarded with revelations beyond their wildest imaginings. What they learn leaves them humbled and in awe of the strange and beautiful universe we call home. When everything makes sense, nothing makes sense. This highly philosophical narrative has been applauded by scientists, artists, thinkers, scholars, media, academia, students and audiences from 10 to 80+ years old.
Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial painters, Andrew Wyeth. Fascinated by his iconic painting Christina's World, Palin goes in search of the real life stories that inspired this and Wyeth's other depictions of the American landscape and its hard grafting inhabitants. Tracking down the farmers, friends and family featured in Wyeth's magically real work, Palin builds a picture of an eccentric, enigmatic and driven painter. He also gets a rare interview with Helga, the woman who put Wyeth back in the headlines when the press discovered he had been painting her nude, compulsively but secretly for 15 years.
A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal and auditory stimuli, witnesses of a globalized violence more visible than ever in a chaotic digital era, in which the slow execution of simple gestures in a silent performance is an act of resistance.
A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist
Onderzoekt de paden die worden uitgestippeld door zes moderne kunstenaars en geeft ons een zeldzaam inzicht in de geesten achter deze opwindende nieuwe golf van schilderkunst.