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AI and the Art Market

Sat, 01 Jan 2022

Could an algorithm be able to authenticate masterpieces more reliably than human experts? And is it possible to create new painting from a long-dead master? This documentary explores the upheavals caused by the arrival of artificial intelligence in the art world.

After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

Wed, 01 Jan 1975

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.

Legend of Destruction

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.

When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

Sun, 08 Jun 2025

As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she is mounting. This was the last interview Alan Yentob conducted in a career spanning six decades at the BBC, bringing many of the world’s leading artists and creatives to the screen. Alan also persuaded Jenny to allow cameras into her painting studio for the first time in almost three decades.

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Tue, 21 Dec 1993

Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

Tim's Vermeer

Fri, 06 Dec 2013

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

The Last Vermeer

Wed, 11 Sep 2019

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

Fossil

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a self-destructive chain of events, coming from the dark abyss of his subconsciousness.

En Plein Air

Sun, 18 Sep 2022

William Hogarth

Tue, 01 Jun 1965

According to Bernard Cohn's review, the directors "show that the painter of British society at the beginning of the 18th century was not only ahead of his time in his aesthetic theories, but that he carried within him the signs that allow us to recognize a creator." (Positif, no. 70, June 1965, p. 73.)

Kuiaratame

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Teenage Ghost Girl

Sun, 01 Jul 1984

After the family moved to the new home, their daughter is possessed by a male demon, which is the same man in an old painting.

Extracorpus

Wed, 01 Dec 2004

Crack-Up

Fri, 06 Sep 1946

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

The Picasso Summer

Fri, 08 Aug 1969

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

Quantum Cowboys

Sat, 14 Oct 2023

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

En Plein Air

Fri, 31 May 2024

A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.

Víctor Millán

Mon, 01 Jan 1968

Victor Millan is a Venezuelan folk artist. The naive painter appears alongside his friends, in his environment, the real world that surrounds him. Here, inventions, myths, obsessions, the sun, the sea, music, and original philosophy are imbued with humor. The film's soundtrack includes commentary and dialogue from the artist himself.

Hinter dem Vorhang: Das Geheimnis Vermeer

Sun, 27 Jun 2021

When the Water Stops Flowing

Sat, 03 Jan 2026

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is taken away. For this work, he examines anecdotal histories he has heard from Estonians, as well as stories from his own family history in the Netherlands, weaving them together into a journal-like narrative.