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Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

2017

The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art in a tribal context. The group bring together a community to construct the Repellent Fence, a two-mile long ephemeral monument “stitching” together the US and Mexico.

Château Noir

2022

Shot in Aix-en-Provence, Château Noir is a cinematic homage to the landscapes once painted by Paul Cézanne. Through minimal camera movements and a meditative gaze, the film seeks to translate the act of painting into pure visual rhythm — capturing light, air, and silence as living matter.

Maintenant et ici

2021

An intimate portrait of the Franco-Iranian painter Davoud Ghanbariha, filmed in the outskirts of Paris. Through a dialogue between his voice and his paintings, Maintenant et ici explores memory, exile, and the act of creation as a fragile bridge between past and present.

David Hockney: The Art of Seeing

2012

Andrew Marr interviews David Hockney about his exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, made up of works depicting the landscape of his native Yorkshire.

Air Quotes

Explore climate justice and the impacts of air pollution with researchers and your local community in a free screening of Air Quotes!

Your War (I'm One of You): 20 Years of Joan of Arc

2017

Your War (I'm One Of You) chronicles the life and career of Chicago's Tim Kinsella, frontman of ever-shifting band Joan of Arc and '90's pioneers Cap'n Jazz. With appearances from Tim's friends, family, and admirers, we learn what has made his legacy so unique and enduring for more than 20 years.

Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben

2023 · ★ 8

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his time and today a star of the younger generation of contemporary artists. ARTE is showing the documentary on the occasion of the major Guston retrospective at the Tate Modern in London.

Ukiyo-e: Floating World Images

2008 · ★ 6

400 years ago, in Japan, a revolutionary art was born and would influence the greatest Western artists of the late nineteenth century, the Ukiyo-E "floating images of the world." A wonderful trip in a world of beauty and discovery. The concept and objectives of this documentary are, on the one hand, to show, teach and discover Japanese art (Japanese stamps and prints) and, on the other hand, to demonstrate the influence of Japanese stamps on Western modern art, showing in comparison some of the Most famous paintings (impressionism or paintings by Van Gogh).

The Reaper

2013 · ★ 6.3

Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.

Fall 2

1970 · ★ 6

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

I'm Too Sad to Tell You

1971 · ★ 6

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the title of the work as a caption. The film was initially ten minutes long, and included Ader rubbing his eyes to produce the tears, but was cut down to three and a half minutes. This shorter version captures Ader at his most anguished. His face is framed closely. There is no introduction or conclusion, no reason given and no relief from the anguish that is presented.

An Inconvenient Truth

2006 · ★ 7

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.