Contemporary Art Movies

This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the...

In 1983, Franz Paludetto acquired Rivara Castle at the foot of the Italian Alps. A century earlier, artists from all over Europe had gathered here to...

Follows Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critical perspective of his work.

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

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing...

Spit Earth: Who Is Jordan Wolfson? is a feature documentary film about this controversial and divisive artist who in the ensuing five years has only...

North Star: Mark di Suvero is a 1977 documentary film about Mark di Suvero that was produced by François de Menil and Barbara Rose. Born in...

Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.

A follow up to award winning documentary 'Herb & Dorothy', the film captures the ordinary couple's extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they...

"Before, it was like this; now, it is like that." This recurring phrase in the work raises the question: what was like this, and now is like that?...

A pioneering force in feminist art for more than four decades, Judy Chicago paved the way for generations of women artists. She decided to join...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Indigenous...

Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces women, fights duels, denies his father's...

Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about...

A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking...

The bell tower rings and the birds fly away. In the countryside on the outskirts of a small village, a dog tied to a very long rope, watches them...