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.
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

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

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Cleto Rojas, a peasant painter in Venezuela, discusses his artwork. From movies and Roman mythology ...

A story about the clash of two cultures, two worlds - traditional Tajik culture and the new, invadin...

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurri...

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Ta...

A Swedish short film taking us inside Värmdö church for the Christmas holiday.

Marisol has been posed against a light-coloured background and carefully lit from left and right. He...

16mm, black and white film, silent, 4:30 min.

Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End was hailed as one of the ...

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, ...

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she ...

English artist, writer, curator and teacher Sir Lawrence Gowing narrates a personal exploration of s...

This surreal abstract film falls into three sections, or movements, the first taking place on the gr...

A young Croatian painter Josip Račić in the solitude of a Parisian attic encounters unusual people a...