1. Trop de Picasso tue-t-il Picasso ? (Trop de Picasso tue-t-il Picasso ?)
"Too much Picasso kills Picasso?" In France as in a lot of other parts of the world Pablo Picasso's art and life is on exhibition. An episode of Le Figaro's Les Décrypteurs.
2. Solitary Eyes
An isolated filmmaker struggles to connect with others in the absence of cameras. When he becomes creatively stuck, the world around him begins to dissolve.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Botticelli – Inferno (Botticelli – Inferno)
The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through hell with fascinating and exciting insights into Botticelli's art and its hidden story.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Logistics (Logistics)
Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes , it is the longest movie ever made. A 37 day-long road movie in the true sense of the meaning. The work is about Time and Consumption. It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
5. Shunga: The Lost Japanese Erotica (春の画 SHUNGA)
In the foundation of the culture of Japanese MANGA and animation, there lies the humor filled art form, shunga. Shunga is a type of Japanese art by famous ukiyo-e artists of the Edo Period, such as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Kiyonaga, but the artform’s development was thwarted by social norms that tabooed sex. The film Introduces the world of shunga through enthusiasts - collectors, curators, and scholars, including Andrew Gerstle who inspired The British Museum’s historical shunga exhibition in 2013 and Michael Fornitz who owns an auction house in Denmark. Exploring the significance of shunga by analyzing it from historical, cultural, artistic and contemporary female points of view.
6. Screen Test: Marisol
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.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. Bob Indiana, Etc.
Robert Indiana with a few companions sitting, smiling, and smoking as life passes idly by.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. Screen Test: Ethel Scull
16mm, black and white film, silent, 4:30 min.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
9. The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment is an 18-minute film produced in 1973 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. and the International Center of Photography. It features a selection of Cartier-Bresson’s iconic photographs, along with rare commentary by the photographer himself.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
10. Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia)
Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
11. Charlélie - Les Statuts de sa Liberté (Charlélie - Les Statuts de sa Liberté)
(Charlélie - Les Statuts de sa Liberté)
12. Closeness to the Land
In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a disused school building. This site allowed her to explore her complex relationship with “the land.” As the daughter of displaced indigenous Palestinians, she attempts to form a proxy bond with the earth, on ground that was stolen from the displaced indigenous Shawnee people. Closeness to the Land is video footage of hand-painted text signs that translate the word الأرض into six English words, displayed performatively in multiple locations to capture the now-invisible nature of indigenous culture in Ohio. These signs were installed on the old schoolhouse in early 2021.
13. La vera natura di Caravaggio
12-episode docuseries on the life and art of Italian baroque painter Caravaggio.
14. Koenigs Kugel - Der Bildhauer und der 11. September (Koenigs Kugel - Der Bildhauer und der 11. September)
Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.
15. Basquiat, Une Vie
From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the friends, collaborators and gallery owners who supported Jean-Michel Basquiat throughout his life. The first ever recognized graffiti artist, who saw international success as a neo-expressionist painter in the 80s, Basquiat is a true contemporary hero who died at the peak of his career.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. Les secrets de François Truffaut (Les secrets de François Truffaut)
(Les secrets de François Truffaut)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Crumb
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
It has an average vote of 7.546 on TMDB.
18. The Studio of Sofía Fernández Díaz
México-raised and currently Chicago-based artist Sofía Fernández Díaz details her process of adorning found objects and handmade textiles with beads, dyes, and melted wax to imbue them with new meaning, and to give them patitas.
19. Frida
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
20. Fall 2
Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
