This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio. The film also captures painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous spot. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular.

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd p...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" ...
"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dism...

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. Ther...

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

Whilst house-sitting in a secluded home in Scotland, Aarya, an expressionist painter, is gifted a re...

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made...

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice...

Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meet...

Rosaire and Alex would do anything to seduce girls, but they are broke. In an attempt to escape thei...

Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place fo...

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew...

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to r...

A group of twenty-somethings struggle through the misguided awkwardness that comes with early romanc...