Painter Movies

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

Explore the life and work of the painter who formed a bridge between the Impressionist and Cubist art movements at the turn of the century.

In Renaissance Italy, a gifted painter becomes entranced by a merchant's wife when commissioned to paint her necklace. Their forbidden connection...

A young painter's hopes, fears, and dreams emerge while he struggles to put together his portfolio.

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea...

An artist struggles with his latest portrait while working away at a manor house in the countryside. Just when he thinks he is getting inspired,...

With his vivid oil paintings, Albert Anker captured Swiss folk life like no other. Together with musician Endo Anaconda we discover the...

The story of the secret of self-creativity, the loneliness of the soul, the meridians of con-sciousness and the scope of man. Ilmārs Blumbergs...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many...

A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin is one of very few women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. A creative awakening in college led her...

Admirers of Harris' paintings discuss his place in the pantheon of Canadian artists.

A short documentary about Patrick Noze, his art and journey as a migrant in America.

Investigation into the painting "Las Meninas", by Diego Velázquez, exhibited at the Prado Museum, in Madrid, and the way in which reality is...

Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.

Short Black and White

The real story about the camel ride around Mallorca, that journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver did in 1964. Sometimes truth is...