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.

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

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...

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

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

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

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

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...
The history of art in Ethiopia. The film emphasizes the styles, materials, etc. ofpaintings on walls...

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

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

Lyonel Feininger's work is as individual and unmistakable as he is himself. As a classical modernist...