Painter Movies

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

Pierre August Renoir's brilliant Le Moulin de la Gallette created immense controversy in its day. Famous for his use of hot reds, orange and gold to...

Born on March 25, 1840, Gustave Guillaumet discovered Algeria by chance when he was about to embark for Italy. Over the course of his ten or eleven...

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th century. Brought up in Barcelona, the...

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately...

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter...

Whatever Comes Next is a documentary about the curious and dynamic life of Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger. The film portrays the painter and scholar,...

When given the rare opportunity to capture images of an enigmatic famous painter, a photographer is forced to confront the limits she will go for her...

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

Believing that his model is in trouble, a retired engineer, now an amateur painter, hires a private detective to find her.

A short look at the world of artist Arthur Lismer.

In this documentary short, two men paddle a canoe across a remote part of northern Lake Superior. Each stroke brings them closer to the culmination...

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was...