Documentary
Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.
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Quando A Noite É Vermelha
Cut Piece
Maria: Don't Forget I Come From the Tropics
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me
American Animals
Earth Hum
The Big Wheel
Screen Test: Marisol
Bob Indiana, Etc.
'Orsay
Segantini: Back to Nature
Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
3 Still Standing
Willy Johansson – Der Glasmeister aus Norwegen
Reverón
Cern and the Sense of Beauty
The Eye of the Typhoon
Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland
The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
SIMILAR MOVIES
Quando A Noite É Vermelha
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2025
May 2, 2024. Amidst big names from São Paulo's drag scene, a young filmmaker dives into the experience of becoming a drag queen for one night.Cut Piece
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1965
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.Maria: Don't Forget I Come From the Tropics
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2017
An examination of the relationship between the life and art of Maria Martins, now recognized as one of the greatest Brazilian sculptors, in addition to her engravings and texts. The film reveals the greatness of her work and her boldness when dealing directly with the feminine perspective of sexuality, a transgression that led to attacks by Brazilian critics. In parallel, her life as the wife of an important diplomat and her connection to Marcel Duchamp, in a relationship of mutual collaboration between the two artists.Yayoi Kusama
IMDB 6 | May , 2016
Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Yoko Ono.Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me
IMDB 10 | Feb , 2008
Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her work comes to life, one can witness the essence of her art as it wells up in the conflict between life, death, and love.American Animals
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 2018
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.Earth Hum
IMDB 10 | Feb , 2026
“Earth Hum” is dedicated to Rachel Martin’s Family Tree, a drawing that combines art, earth, and love all into one. In a conversation with Martin, we learn a little bit more about her art told through her own voice and drawings as well as the ethereal presence of friends and old Super 8 footage. Like Martin says, in art, you see that there are magical things happening but it is really very human.The Big Wheel
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1980
During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is initially powered by a motorcycle, and discusses its relation to his earlier performance pieces and sculptural works. Addressing his motivations and the meaning of this potentially dangerous mechanical art object, Burden discusses such topics as the role of the artist in the industrial world, "personal insanity and mass insanity," and "man's propensity towards violence."Screen Test: Marisol
IMDB 6 | May , 1964
Marisol has been posed against a light-coloured background and carefully lit from left and right. Her face emerges from the dark mass of her hair. The film is slightly out of focus throughout. At one point she glances off-screen, then resumes her gaze into the camera.Bob Indiana, Etc.
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1963
Robert Indiana with a few companions sitting, smiling, and smoking as life passes idly by.'Orsay
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2012
Segantini: Back to Nature
IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 2017
Giovanni Segantini rose from humble origins to become the most important of Italian pointillists, and one of the most important symbolist painters in the 19th century. This film focuses on his way of feeling nature as a source of artistic and spiritual inspiration.Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2010
A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007.3 Still Standing
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2014
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francisco in the 1980s.Willy Johansson – Der Glasmeister aus Norwegen
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2025
Reverón
IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 1952
Directed by Margot Benacerraf, Reverón is a poetic and visually striking documentary that delves into the life and artistic vision of Venezuelan painter Armando Reverón. Set in the sun-drenched coastal landscape of Macuto, where the artist lived in near isolation, the film captures his eccentric lifestyle and unique creative process. Through evocative imagery and a contemplative narrative, Reverón explores his deep connection to nature, his experiments with light and texture, and his profound artistic genius. This seminal work stands as a tribute to one of Venezuela’s most influential painters and a landmark in Latin American documentary filmmaking.Cern and the Sense of Beauty
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2017
An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva.The Eye of the Typhoon
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1993
Performance conceived by Erich Wonder & Heiner Müller for the 300th anniversary of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. The band, Einstürzende Neubauten, is located on a glass palace/stage on wheels (accompanied by the slavish trotting of huskies) which is slowly moving on the nightly ring road of Vienna.Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1980
Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This film shows a meeting between the artist and Edythe Goodridge, art curator and critic. Through a combination of Squires's reflections on his life and work and the good-natured banter of these two friends, an intimate portrait evolves of the artist and his subject.The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2021
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the top of the Champs-Élysées, is, along with the Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited monuments in the French capital. Wanted by an emperor, inaugurated under the reign of a king (Louis-Philippe) and sanctuarized by the Republic, this patriotic temple polarizes the passions of a whole nation. A historical portrait before "packaging", which teems with anecdotes and unsuspected details.