The Master Game (1998)
• October 30th, 1998 • 1h 46min
Documentary
Overview
At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer. Rainer had become world-famous for his abstract art and, in particular, for his over-layering of photographs and overpainting of his own and other artists’ works. But who painted over the “overpainter”? Speculation rages: Did he attack his works himself? A year later, an unsigned letter surfaces claiming responsibility for the act directed against Rainer – and modern art in general – and accusing the artist of being complicit with “destructive modernism.” At the same time, Austria is shaken by a series of mail bombs by the Bajuwarian Liberation Army, in response to the supposed threat to Austria’s “German identity.” Are there connections between the overpainting event and the mail bombs? Or is this all just a game? A dream? Or perhaps a hallucination?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Closeness to the Land
Released on: 2022-05-21
Documentary
In 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Gazala purchased land in western Ohio, on which sits a ...
Terrorstorm
Released on: 2006-06-26
Documentary
Throughout history, regimes have used terror attacks as a means of control over their populations, a...
I Needed Color
Released on: 2017-07-25
Documentary
Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.
Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
Released on: 1976-01-01
Documentary
Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
Released on: 2017-09-26
Documentary, History
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey ...
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
Released on: 2017-11-21
Documentary
Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibition...
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Released on: 2018-01-23
Documentary
Dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cézanne, the exhibition opens in Paris before traveling to Lo...
Herr och Fru Konst
Released on: 2005-11-11
Documentary
"Mr and Mrs Art" - Getting attention is like being struck by the light of the sun, says artist Karin...
An immersion into the Divine Feminine
Released on: 2017-08-15
Documentary
By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...
Exergo
Released on: 2024-05-04
Documentary, Drama
Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...
David Choe: High Risk
Released on: 2015-07-23
Documentary
Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...
Our Motherland
Released on: 2020-09-18
Documentary
Documentary about Constant Kusters, leader of the The Dutch Peoples-Union, a Dutch Neo-Nazi politica...
Konrad Mägi
Released on: 2019-11-30
Documentary
A documentary made for Konrad Mägi exhibition "The Light of the North" in Torino, Musei Reali (2019-...
If Stone Could Speak
Released on: 2008-08-31
Documentary
Stonecutters emigrated from northern Italy to Barre, Vermont, the "Granite Capital of the World." Fo...