Artists Life Movies

In the 70s, Amanda Lear was a disco queen, pop icon, model and world star. She enchanted Paco Rabanne, Andy Warhol, Bryan Ferry and David Bowie. She...

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-selling "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". At 82, Eric...

Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A...

Xing, a young artist struggles to balance his passion for art with the expectations imposed on him by his single mother. Personal aspirations and...

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family...

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period...

A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.

Clarice wants to make a film about Jonathan, an unexpected and surprising filmmaker.

An in-depth look at the torturous process of writing a novel from an artist who echoes Henry David Thoreau by living in the wilderness to create...

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old...

In rocky Newfoundland, renowned French artist Jean Claude Roy gathers his paints and sets off to face the day. Whether it be freezing snow, violent...

A surrealist home movie, filmed by Luis Buñuel in Cadaqués in 1930, focusing on Salvador Dalí's father and his wife.

I Am Here You Are Not I Love You follows the writer Aidan Ryan as he attempts to make sense of the work and clues left behind by the late visual...

This documentary by independent filmmaker Ken Harrison provides a look into the contemporary Texas art world of the mid-‘70s. Shot in 1975,...

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the...

Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood...

A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking...

In the early 70s, Barbara discovered herself backstage on her French tour. The artist plays with intimacy and camera glances. Between concerts, she...