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Visual Arts
see all genres ›Whether created from molded clay, acrylic paint or flickering light on a wall, visual arts and their makers are natural cinematic subjects.
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SUB-GENRES · Ceramics · Motion Pictures · Painting · Photography · Sculpture
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Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation
William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas are two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art. In KENTRIDGE AND DUMAS IN CONVERSATION, the two South African artists speak frankly about their work, their studio practice, their inspirations and the challenges of success. The film shows the two...Start your free trial to watch
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Kids of Survival
KIDS OF SURVIVAL is an Emmy Award-winning feature-length documentary about three years of work and struggle inside the acclaimed South Bronx art/education group, Tim Rollins + K.O.S. For over a decade, artist-educator Tim Rollins, working with Puerto Rican and Dominican teenagers in the Bronx, has made...Start your free trial to watch
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Kingdom of Shadows
Narrated by Academy Award® winner Rod Steiger (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), KINGDOM OF SHADOWS is a haunting, sometimes shocking documentary that explores the evolution of horror in world cinema with a danse macabre of religion, science, carnivals, sex, nightmares, monstrosity and death. More than fifty...Start your free trial to watch
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Kites
KITES tells the inspiring story of Kabul’s budding young video producers. Through a clever combination of the students’ video and their mentor Jacek Szaranski’s artful camera work, we take a look at the use of video and high tech in a world more commonly associated with a backward and warmongering existence. A world where...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last Mogul
"If Hollywood was Mount Olympus," says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Barry Avrich's THE LAST MOGUL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEW WASSERMAN, "then Lew Wasserman was Zeus." Over sixty years as power-broker at MCA and head of Universal Studios, Wasserman rewrote the behind the scenes Hollywood rulebook. In this "highly...Start your free trial to watch
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Life Squared
This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Created in 2006, this project is one of the first artist archive projects in Second Life and has been exhibited...Start your free trial to watch
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions...Start your free trial to watch
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Making It in Manhattan
Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, MAKING IT IN MANHATTAN is informed "entertainment" about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film...Start your free trial to watch
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Making the Boys
Crayton Robey's MAKING THE BOYS explores the enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Beloved by some for breaking new ground and condemned by others for reinforcing gay stereotypes, THE BOYS IN THE BAND sparked heated controversy that endures to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Man You Loved to Hate
THE MAN YOU LOVED TO HATE blends revealing interviews, rare photographs and clips from Erich von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fascinating tribute to one of American cinema's most complex artists. A visual perfectionist with perverse inclinations, von Stroheim was unwillng to...Start your free trial to watch
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Marlene
MARLENE is a portrait that brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight. In September of 1982, Oscar® winning actor and director Maximillian Schell (THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH) arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews with Marlene Dietrich intended for a...Start your free trial to watch
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Marwencol
Outside a small bar in Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp was beaten nearly to death, his memories wiped away. Seeking recovery, he builds Marwencol, a miniature World War II-era town filled with doll versions of his friends, fantasies and even his attackers. As he documents the town’s dramas with his camera, the dolls become...Start your free trial to watch
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Max Ernst Hanging
In this revealing documentary, patron, collector and curator Dominique de Menil hangs the 1973 exhibition “Inside the Sight,” in conversation with Max Ernst, the 20th-century Surrealist artist. From installation to opening party, the events that transpire, as captured by filmmakers John and Francois de...Start your free trial to watch
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Winsor McCay and His Animated Pictures
The legendary Winsor McCay takes a bet from his (seemingly pompous) friends that he can create an animated film in short order. While not a documentary in the strictest sense, ...AND HIS ANIMATED PICTURES (otherwise displaying its alternate title in the opening card) does present some ersatz evidence of...Start your free trial to watch
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Monkeyshines no.1
MONKEYSHINES is the first of three tests shot by Thomas Edison's "Williams" (Heise and K.L. Dickson) to determine if the Edison lab's camera system was functioning properly. It is unknown whether if the tests actually occurred in 1889 or the following year.Start your free trial to watch
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Monster Road
MONSTER ROAD is a feature length documentary exploring the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's iconoclastic worldview, the film journeys back to Bickford's childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his...Start your free trial to watch
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Nobody's Perfect
One of the thousands of Germans born with deformities caused by the drug Thalidomide, filmmaker Niko van Glasow confronts his disability head on in this extraordinary documentary, which follows his search for eleven other “Thalidomiders” willing to pose naked for a book of photos. With a darkly humorous...Start your free trial to watch
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Nollywood Babylon
NOLLYWOOD BABYLON chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early ‘90s to describe the world’s fastest-growing national cinema, surpassed only by its Indian counterpart. The film delves first-hand into Nigeria’s explosive homegrown movie industry, where Jesus and voodoo vie for screen...Start your free trial to watch