In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction. In the years between the seizure of power by the Russian Bolsheviks and Stalinism in the 1930s, the avant-gardists developed a new form of art that ushered in modernism.

Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performan...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

This 1982 film explains the KGB infiltration of America. Who they are, what they are doing, and how ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for fou...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second genera...
“A Two Hearted Tale” is a heartfelt look at the history of the iconic trout label adorning Bell’s Tw...

In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere,...

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation i...