Portrait of a Landscape Artist

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman

«Эдем» — это студенческое кафе, где тусуются молодые люди, курят травку, играют на гитарах и сочиняют всякие байки. Так начинается криминальный сюжет, постепенно переходящий в красивый сюрреализм и артхаус. То ли это чей-то криминальный план в этом «Эдеме» или может мастерски спланированный кем то ряд преступлений… В фильмах Ален Роб-Грийе вообще трудно отделить реальность от снов и фантазии, явь от сновидений. На лицо любимые приемы режиссера Ален Роб-Грийе — красивые нагие девушки, восточные напевы, красивые сюрреалистичные сцены

В центре сюжета — 16-летний парнишка, которого судьба занесла в калифорнийский богемный городок Кармел. Здесь герой связался с дурной компанией и оказался замешан в подделке произведений искусства. Есть, однако, и плюсы: парень сдружился с пожилой художницей, которая помнит те времена, когда Кармел начал становиться излюбленным местом художников, писателей, актеров и прочих творческих натур.

Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf. Sometimes the images look like paper cutouts, like Matisse. Green objects occasionally appear. Most wings are translucent. The technique makes them appear to be stuck directly to the film.

A Short Film About John Bolton is a darkly hip and hilarious film explores the question that torments artists of every medium: "Where do your ideas come from?" Renowned artist John Bolton's paintings of voluptuous she-vampire nudes have earned this quiet eccentric a reputation for having a "damaged imagination." BBC radio personality Jonathan Ross buys his pieces, which leads interviewer extraordinaire Marcus Brigstocke to find out what the appeal is in Bolton's beautiful (but terrifying) artwork. Why does Bolton demand that his gallery "monsterpieces" speak for themselves? What does he do with that ornamental knife that he carries everywhere? Will Marcus ever learn how to operate the camera?

The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture. In 1981, the film has won the German film critic's award for “Best short film in Germany”.

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.

Фильм-плакат к 50-летию Октябрьской революции. В фильме использованы мотивы работ художников 1920-х годов — Лентулова, Альтмана, Петрова-Водкина и других.

Charting the intersection between rural America and contemporary graphic design.

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.

История жизни знаменитых сестер-писательниц Бронте. Рано лишившись матери, сестры Бронте — Шарлотта, Эмилия и Анна — были предоставлены сами себе. Вскоре оказалось, что все три сестры обладают литературными талантами.

Фильм расскажет историю художницы Маргарет Кин, прославившуюся в 50-х своими картинами, изображающими большеглазых детей и ставшими одним из первых примеров успешного распространения искусства на массовом рынке. Драма покажет пробуждение самосознания художницы на фоне феминистского движения, что, в конечном счете, приведет ее к судебной тяжбе с мужем, который пытался заявить свои права на ее работы.

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

Несколько весьма эксцентричных приятелей оказываются запертыми в одной комнате в течение довольно долгого времени. Всё бы ничего, если бы они не были уверены в скорейшем наступлении конца света.

A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by.