The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.
The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who i...

A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Sch...

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

Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. A year in the life of A Fonsagrada, a rural region whose inhabitan...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...

Haunted by three unfinished films, a filmmaker seeks to demystify his relationship with failure thro...

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

A British artist misses his parents' wedding anniversary for a last-minute sketching commission in C...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.
In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work. When he was finished he took out a pocketk...

The life and work of painter Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006), one of the most important ar...

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd p...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...

A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood acto...