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.
Mr. Bean trabaja como vigilante del prestigioso Royal National Gallery. Sus jefes están hartos de él y quieren despedirlo a causa de sus continuas meteduras de pata, pero no pueden hacerlo porque cuenta con la recomendación del director del museo. Para asegurarse de que su incompetencia quede de manifiesto ingenian un plan para enviarle a los EE.UU. como un experto en arte con el fin de adquirir el cuadro más valioso del mundo.
Serie Documental presentado por Dennis Hopper. En el se hablo sobre el poder de la publicidad televisiva. Reconocidos directores de cine como David Lynch, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott son entrevistados por Hermann Vaske
Un delincuente apodado el "marqués" acaba de salir de la cárcel y decide volver a las andadas, con ayuda de su bella compinche, que se hará pasar por su esposa. Ahora se trata de estafar y para ello pide a un copista (Totò) que plagie un cuadro de Goya, para convertirlo en la tercera "maja": "La maja con el camisón". Más tarde, un experto (Louis de Funès) creerá que se trata de la obra original, ya que está subyugado por la esposa del "marqués"... (FILMAFFINITY)
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals. The chronological narrative often breaks to reflect the interior voyage of the protagonist from the present to the past and back to the present. The result is a visually impressive film. Balkan Baroque had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999.
Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Experimental research and dissemination documentary about current contemporary art that compiles the opinions, experiences and anecdotes of artists, gallery owners, curators, museum directors and experts.
A short documentary by Brendan O’Connell in which he goes into Walmart stores to paint the aisles he walks and the people he sees. O’Connell says “whatever your views are, positive or negative related to Walmart, it just is. From an artist’s perspective, addressing this environment that is an undeniable component to contemporary life is exciting.”