Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea and worked with and around boats, fish, carnivals, and animals most of his life. While convalescing during an extended period in the Halifax infirmary in 1973, he was encouraged to paint. What began is therapy and a pastime developed into a way of representing a lifetime of images and experience

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling ...
Produced by Jack McGaw and co-produced by The National Research Council, the Ontario Ministry of Tra...

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Portrait of David Hockney is mad...

Looking for Lowry is an entertaining documentary film about the life and work of the much loved Brit...

Two storytellers put forth their versions of the story of Shravan Kumar. The art for the film uses p...

Leonardo da Vinci is not just the most famous and most admired of all painters - he is an icon, a su...

Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and co-director Bergur Bernburg helm this lovely d...

Where You From enters the lives of three extraordinary individuals confronting small town life, brok...

Short interview with Clive Barker about Midnight Meat Train, his artistic process, and his paintings...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris. These paintings c...

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of art...

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's sem...

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques an...
This docucumentary by John Brett conveys the impressions of cultural loss felt by an elderly Acadian...

Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an...

The only thing colder than a Canadian winter is Canadian bureaucracy (probably). Based on five real ...

Leo Regan follows his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he tries to go cold turkey (detox) fr...

In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it's visible on the ci...

This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he be...