Thibault, a young painter, attempts to paint a live model for the first time.

Micah is a young artist struggling with a new piece. However, a problem involving his ex-partner reaches its boiling point.

When an aspiring painter grapples with self-doubt in his artistic journey, his father must learn to love and accept him for who he is.

A starving artist struggles to meet an impending deadline as his upstairs neighbor does everything imaginable to distract him.

Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.

Traces the life and artistic development of the Aboriginal painter, the late Albert Namatjira. His environment, his introduction to painting, his subsequent success with beautifully original landscapes and his influence on fellow Aborigines are recorded.

Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create artwork that has been described as “a collision of pointillism and 8-Bit art.” Lasko, who is legally blind, served in WWII drafting directional and weather maps for bombing raids and later worked as a typographer (back when everything is done by hand) for clients such as General Tire, Goodyear and The Cleveland Browns before retiring in the 1970s. Decades after his retirement his family introduced him to Microsoft Paint and he never looked back.

Explores the paths being forged by six modern artists, giving us rare insight into the minds behind this rousing new wave of painting.

In 1817, at age 25, Anthony Flower left London, England on one of his father’s trading ships bound for Canada. He would never return to claim his inheritance. Using Anthony Flower’s art, archival material and interviews with researchers, historians, curators and the people of Queens County, New Brunswick, the mystery of his life is revealed.

Alan Yentob takes the artist Howard Hodgkin away from his Bloomsbury studio to India to discover more about his works and what inspires him.

A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the 13 week-long strike by ship-workers to improve working conditions involving the handling of asbestos on ships docked in the port of Sydney.

In an art class, naive Kae lays his eyes on his classmate, Evelyn, and feels an instant connection to her. He asks his best friend, Apollo, for advice as he struggles to tell if the feeling is mutual. As their friendship develops over time, Kae decides to take the leap of faith and ask her out. However, his lack of confidence turns out to be the least of his worries, as when he shows up to class the following day, Evelyn is nowhere to be seen. Days, weeks and months pass without Evelyn arriving at class and Kae is left to wonder what could have been.

Mexican paintings pack both a visual and narrative wallop with their often bright colors and inventive depictions of stories and events. This video traces the rich history of Mexican painting, from colonial works with a distinct Christian emphasis to modernist paintings of the 20th century. Profiled artists include colonial painter Baltasar de Echeve Orio, 19th century master Jose Maria Estrada, and the influential surrealist Frida Kahlo.

During an impromptu visit to her parent's farm, a struggling young artist rediscovers her creative identity with the help of a wild stranger in this feminal, visual poem.

Day of the Painter is a 1960 American short film directed by Robert P. Davis. It is a satire which portrays a typical day in the life of a "drip and splatter style" abstract artist, from the time he begins his paintings until he finishes. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he travelled through Italy. Ambitious courtier that he was, the Spaniard was a master of observation and visual manipulation. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff showcases his epoch-making portraits and genre paintings that reveal Velázquez’s virtuosity in treating light, colour and sensuous characterisation. He also lifts Velázquez’s secret of painting that helped him become the “painter of painters”.

Russia's rich cultural heritage features a fascinating array of artistic works. This in-depth documentary examines the lives and art of some prominent Russian impressionists, including Vasily Polenov, Wassily Kandinsky, Konstantin Korovin, Philipp Malyavin, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. A variety of artists from other schools of painting (rayonism, Cézannism, cubism and suprematism) are also discussed.

When Peter the Great came to power at the beginning of the 18th century, he westernized Russia, often using a brutal hand to bring about change. One of the transformations that occurred at this time was in the field of art, which moved from its primitive tribal and religious roots toward a more classic western style. This absorbing program explores how the combination of influences is reflected in the country's emergent art.

The film tells the story of one citizen from Jalouzi, one of the largest slums in Haiti, who is determined to bring color to the impoverished area by helping paint the entire town, literally. Believing that color has the power to transform his community, he’s helping to paint everywhere – on houses, on buses, and the entire hillside. Armed with brushes of bright blues, pastel pinks, and sunshine yellows, he’s helping to mobilize citizens of all ages, determined to turn the grey town into a rainbow full of color to lead the way to a brighter Haiti.