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.

Satirical artist and art director, Suzanne Heintz, adopted her fake family more than 15 years ago to...

Deeply thoughtful and illuminating, DRAWING A LIFE reveals the details of artist Geoff McFetridge’s ...

Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil.

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many ot...
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francis...

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...
AquaBurn is an award-winning documentary film by director Bill Breithaupt showcasing "The Floating W...

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard pu...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film showcases the bird diversity of the Minsmere Nature Reserv...

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For ...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more...

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...

Tells the history of skateboard art and its evolution through the decades, as iconic and rebellious ...

Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...