Painting Movies

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be...

Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.

In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his...

Adapted from local author Orla Loughlin's short story of the same name, Portraits of Sari depicts the journey of Steven McNarma encountering the...

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through...

The story revolves around the life of Mi, a free-spirited young woman in the very conservative 1940's Burmese society, and her many lovers. She...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

Animation by Nana Yachi. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

Three different snapshots of family life are captured through the eyes of a painting, with the progression of technology getting in their way.

Short documentary on the Belgian painter Max Selen.

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 highfalutin art movie crumbles into a meta-fictional disaster that betrays its director’s incompetence in real time, and it’s all on...

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by...

A documentary on the painter Antonio López and his day-to-day work.

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living...

Thanks to his life and work, Goya remains as one of the most capable artists when capturing the human condition, and the most rigurous portrayer of...

Rip and Seb are college students from very different backgrounds. Rip is from a working class family and has had to fight for everything he has. Seb...

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the...