Trazos Paralelos (2021)

볼티모어의 한 샌드위치 가게에 근무하는 펙커(Pecker: 에드워드 펄롱 분)는 사진광이다. 버스 안의 여인, 못생기도 뚱뚱한 불평 투성이의 길거리 여인, 술집의 남성 스트리퍼, 불법매춘현장의 창녀, 샌드위치 가게의 손님, 심지어 도둑놈까지 그 어느 누구도 그의 카메라 렌즈를 벗어날 수는 없다. 그는 연출되지 않은 모든 자연스러운 장면을 사진의 소재로 삼으며 자신이 찍은 이 사진들을 가게에 전시해 놓고 팔기도 한다. 그러던 어느 날, 그의 가게에 들린 한 여자 큐레이터가 그의 재능을 알아보고 뉴욕으로 초대한다. 그녀가 마련한 뉴욕의 갤러리에서 역시 그의 작품은 호평을 받으며 성공리에 이를 마치게 된다. 한편, 세탁소에서 일을 하는 펙커의 여자 친구 쉘리(Shelley: 크리스티나 리치 분)는 펙커가 유명해지자 자신들의 관계가 멀어질까봐 두려워하지만 펙커의 마음은 변함없이 여전히 그녀를 사랑한다. 펙커는 큐레이터의 도움으로 잡지표지 모델로 등장하는 등 점점 그 인기를 더해가고, 마을에서는 펙커의 모델이 되고자 서로 안달이 되기도 하고, 그를 모방하여 카메라를 들고 다니는 사람까지도 등장한다. 그러나 펙커는 인기에 연연해하지 않고 뉴욕 진출의 유혹도 물리친 채 아버지와 함께 자신의 이름을 딴 새 가게를 오픈하며 생활한다.

Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.

미술을 전공하는 대학생 벤은 여자친구와 헤어진 후, 불면증에 시달린다. 하지만 하루에 8시간, 인생의 3분의 1이 더 생겼다는 걸 깨달은 그는 잠 못 이루는 밤을 보내기 위해 동네 슈퍼마켓에서 야간 아르바이트를 시작한다. 그곳에는 근무시간의 지루함을 예술적(?)으로 견디어내는 각양각색의 사람들이 있다. 벤 역시 지루한 근무시간을 견디기 위해 시간을 멈추는 상상을 하게 된다. 멈춰진 시간 속에서 쇼핑중인 여자 손님들의 옷을 벗기고 나체를 스케치하는 환상에 빠져드는 벤. 그런 그에게 점차 동료인 샤론이 눈에 띄기 시작한다. 사랑을 되찾고 싶은 그의 소망은 과연 이루어질 수 있을까.

1965년 뉴욕. 파격적인 전시로 현대 예술의 개념을 뒤흔든 앤디 워홀(가이 피어스)은 한 사교파티에서 자유롭게 춤을 추는 에디 세즈윅(시에나 밀러)을 발견한다. 앤디는 뉴욕으로 건너와 패션모델을 하고 있는 그녀가 자신이 꿈꾸는 새로운 예술의 뮤즈가 될 것을 직감한다. 앤디는 에디를 자신의 작업이 이루어지는 팩토리로 초대한다. 그의 실험영화 주연으로 발탁된 에디는 그의 예술적 동반자이자 뮤즈로서 유명해진다. 하지만 에디는 자신이 피사체일 뿐, 팩토리의 일원은 아니라는 소외감을 느끼기 시작하고, 그런 그녀 앞에 빌리(헤이든 크리스텐슨)라는 록스타가 나타나는데...

1편, 인생 수업. 세계적으로 유명한 화가인 닉 놀티는 예술에 대한 정열과 그에게 냉담한 제자를 향한 육체적 욕망 사이에서 심한 갈등을 겪는다. 그는 그림을 가르쳐 준다는 빌미로 제자의 발을 묶으려하나, 그녀는 다름 남자와 바람을 피워대고. 2편, 죠가 없는 삶이란. 플룻 연주자인 아버지와 작가인 어머니를 둔 12살 소녀 "죠"가 부모의 잦은 여행으로 혼자 뉴욕의 일류 호텔에 묵으면서, 그녀의 화려한 상상력으로 삭막한 뉴욕생활을 환상적으로 살아간다는 깜찍한 이야기. 3편, 외디푸스 콤플랙스. 변호사로서 안정된 생활 기반을 가진 한 중년의 남자가 결혼 문제에 있어 어머니에게 성가신 간섭을 받는다. 어머니의 영향력으로부터 자유로울 수 없던 그는 어머니가 사라졌으면 하는데.

During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.

Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol's famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Willard Maas's lyrical "film poem" is the only visual document of this seminal exhibition.

The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and translator, were a typical and unconventional family, both at the same time. One of the father’s obsessions was filming himself and his family members. Using archival footage only, shot primarily by Zdzisław, as well many other materials, which have not been presented anywhere so far, the film tells a tragic story of the Beksińskis that has never ceased to fascinate Polish filmmakers.

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a maximum security facility in a foreign country, and yet has been dramatically rewarded for his exploits. Life didn't change much when he traded a $60k fee in favor of stock in a start-up called The Facebook, but now he is estimated to be worth over $250 million, highlighting a colorful career filled with giant street art installations, porn star affairs and investigative reporting for companies like Vice and CNN. Director and childhood friend Harry Kim guides us through the fantastically surreal life of Choe featuring interviews and appearances by Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Sasha Grey, Sean Parker, and Shepard Fairey.

Observes the creative process and thinking of Alfredo Jaar, of the most relevant artists in contemporary art. His work deals from the migration in the frontier of Mexico and the US, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Chilean coup d'etat in 1973. He sees art as the "last place" of freedom in modern society and from that idea he unfolds his work as an act of resistance.

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the landmark exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective from June 27 to October 19, 2014. It was the largest, most comprehensive survey of Koons’s art ever assembled, spanning four decades of his career and displaying 145 works from every series, including 13 new pieces exhibited publicly for the first time. The film follows Koons and Whitney Chief Curator, Scott Rothkopf, who conceived and organized the show, through every gallery of the exhibition. In addition, insightful interviews with Adam Weinberg, the Whitney’s Director, Robert Storr, Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Art, and Michelle Kuo, Editor of Artforum, help to deepen the investigation into Koon’s art and process.

We are in the midst of production on a one-hour film on seminal art historian John Richardson, and his work on the fourth and final volume of his biography on Picasso. Richardson shares his insights and observations on Picasso, whom he first met in the 1950s, with Shelley Wanger, his editor at Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House, Inc.).

When a group of young DIY artists in Santa Fe can’t find a door into the art world, they blow open an entirely new portal with their grit, passion, and tenacity. Within just a few short years – and with a little help from George R.R. Martin – this group called Meow Wolf ultimately hits a cultural nerve and garners massive, unexpected success with their exhibit, House of Eternal Return.

Black and white animation based on Munch's art of work. The image changes gradually and resembles at one point The Scream.

"Let's Not Pretend" is a film by Riley Bartolomeo about acclaimed artist Susan Calza. This documentary follows this award and fellowship grant winning artist to discover the autobiographical stories which lay beneath her art. Moreover, the film emphasizes the importance of art in our communities, country and world!

An unpublished painting, the meeting of two geniuses in a single painting arrives to the museum at a rainy night. The museum caretaker observes the work of art being brought to the lounge where it will be exhibited to the public. The wet box drips on the paint, the paint softens and releases the conjoined painters who walk around the museum intervening on the works of art in a Cubist and Surrealist manner. The caretaker "chases" our painters in a classic cartoon chasing, using the Renaissance mechanisms to restore the order.

A young painter succeeds portraying scenes of violence and lust connected to real crimes that plague Los Angeles.