The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against music: the sky, trees, leaves, a bird, water, sand, a beach. A little boy wanders along the beach observing the natural world around him. He walks and presently comes to a house and peers inside. The second sequence has no music. The narrator speaks of sculptor Alexander Calder and his work, as we see Calder in his workshop, cutting and creating unusual shapes, and seeing the resultant artworks. The last sequence has music as we view images of Calder's work. However, now they are intercut with images from nature so that we understand that Calder's inspiration is the natural world around him. The film ends as it began, with an image of the sun, now fading into the sky.
This documentary brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. ...

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...

A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated w...

Take an inside look at Rick Perry’s strange and wonderful life as Creative Producer for Dimension 20...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creat...

Legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez and his friends -- cartoonists Robert Crumb and Jay...

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found i...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the ...

The Arts Council commissioned this film to coincide with their major retrospective of Giacometti's w...

A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never b...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

Through post-porn, performance and wrestling, Puck tries to figure out her place in the world.

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

The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is diff...