Artist Movies

Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.

Portrait of an Artist

Six artists from different walks of life vie to win the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, the only juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government.

Artist, musician and art magazine publisher Noah Becker gives us an art world insider's view of New York based contemporary art in 2011. Important...

Trapeze artist Mathilda wears the pants in her circus act. Figuratively.

She tells Lalin's journey from Thailand to Japan. With the opportunity to study abroad, she flees to Sapporo, where no one knows her and can live...

Through an intimate conversation, Steph Jane, age 28, shares the struggles and lessons her second diagnosis of stage-4 cancer has taught her. From...

The main character of Swedish director Sara Broos’s documentary is her godfather and close family friend Lars Lerin, one of Scandinavia’s...

On a continuing journey and without destination defined, the painter Anton Lamazares meets with friends and family to reflect about key issues to...

An in-depth look at the torturous process of writing a novel from an artist who echoes Henry David Thoreau by living in the wilderness to create...

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

An intimate portrait filmed across 10 years of Mary, a charismatic and complex woman, born and raised in rural Kansas, USA. She runs a curiosity shop...

Photographer and entrepreneur in training, Alonzo, struggles to get his artistic business off the ground. To combat his self-doubt and anxiety, he...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Described in Art Review as the world’s most influential and expensive living artist, the German painter Gerhard Richter was enjoying enormous...

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that...

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...

A dreamlike portrait of Akhira unraveling beneath the weight of her own reflection. A meditation on loneliness, transformation, and the haunting...