Painter Movies

Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter. Shedding fresh light on...

Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at...

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

Acclaimed British art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, investigates the few known facts about William Dobson and seeks out personal stories he left...

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film,...

Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th...

Longline: A struggling artist has 24 hours to sell her painting and pay off a ruthless debt collector.

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his...

The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the...

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona Lisa and even how he...

A street painter meets a woman and asks to paint her. Two years later, the two are now a couple living together but struggle to get by. When the...

Henri Matisse's great-granddaughter Sophie traces the story of how the artist fought personal tragedies and critical ridicule to become one of the...

Mayhem ensues in the remote countryside when people start dying at the hands of a mysterious masked figure.

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

Admirers of Harris' paintings discuss his place in the pantheon of Canadian artists.