Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

Картина рассказывает невероятную, но правдивую историю о том, как эксцентричный буржуа французского происхождения, проживающий в Лос-Анджелесе, превратившись в кинодокументалиста, попытался отыскать Бэнкси и подружиться с ним.

1953 год. В Америке идет борьба женщин за свои права, и в это время Кэтрин Энн Уотсон, выпускница Беркли, получает место преподавателя истории искусств в женском колледже Уэллесли. Однако среди руководства и преподавательского состава колледжа преобладают патриархальные взгляды на роль женщины в этом мире. Кэтрин со страстным энтузиазмом бросается в борьбу за равноправие полов, и оказывает огромное влияние на студенток, в том числе на Бетти и Джоан. Общение с ними меняет не только их, но и заставляет ее по-новому взглянуть на собственную жизнь…

Документальный фильм о 56-летней художнице Минди Альпер, которая в настоящее время выставляется в одной из лучших галерей Лос-Анджелеса.

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.

The film follows the plight of young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai, casting light on the creative process behind his art piece "State of the Nation".

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, but it carries an Expressionist and social emphasis that is characteristic of Nordic 'angst.' The artists of Die Brucke were restless creatures, over-sensitive, haunted by religious, sexual, political or moral obsessions. Dramatic landscapes and nudes, mystical and visionary compositions, scenes of the countryside, the streets, the circus, the cafe-dansants and the demi-monde were their principal subjects. Their pure colours blaze in acid stridency, encompassed by rough, dry contours which show the influence of African art and primitive woodcuts. The work of the following is shown: Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Muller, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein.

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

In Europe, road junctions have become public art galleries. A road trip across France, Switzerland, the Canary Islands, Greece and Germany exploring the glorious world of roundabout art.

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the ‘mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art.