Painting Movies

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon...

Ren struggles with the death of his longtime friend Kaoru. He finds a painting of a girl that Kaoru left behind. Ren sets out on a journey to find...

The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was...

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

This surreal abstract film falls into three sections, or movements, the first taking place on the ground, the second in the air and the third again...

The first of five interview short films with renowned painter Edward Povey during the install of a collection of four paintings at 2 Blackburne...

“Ramón y Cajal: drawings on the retina” is a documentary about the Nobel Prize winner that explores, from a contemporary...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner...

A young artist struggles to capture the beauty of a young woman who has been recently crippled and bound to a wheelchair.

Marco locks himself away in his studio to paint a new painting. The canvas, however, remains white for lack of inspiration. In order to divert...

Tyler, a young gay man who is HIV positive, must deal with the demons of his past when he is confronted by a mysterious woman.

Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the...

Las Muralistas features women muralists whose works cover the walls of San Francisco’s Mission District. The muralism movement that emerged in...

This feature documentary portrays one of the most important museums in the world, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. It presents a unique look...

Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.

When a passionate gallery janitor accidentally messes up a preserved painting, she and her friend have to clean up her mess before their egotistical...