Old Doc Yak and the Artist's Dream

An animator's dog gets the better of him

Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)

Inverting the form, style and time frame of commercial television advertising, Logue has produced a unique series of dynamic video portraits of avant-garde artists, writers, musicians and performers. In 30 Second Spots:

Hamish Henderson, An Artist's Inspiration

How iconic folklorist and poet, Hamish Henderson, inspired artist Charles Nasmyth. Nasmyth looks at the man behind the legend and asks who was he, really? Why was he inspired by Hamish's personality to paint his portrait

Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Ga

Robert Plant & The Band of Joy - Live from the Artists Den

A rare snowy day in Nashville, Tennessee set the stage for an even rarer event an intimate concert by rock icon Robert Plant at the War Memorial Auditorium. Performing with his new, Grammy-nominated group aptly titled th

The Artist's Studio: Donald Judd

Filmed in the fall of 1972, The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd explores the concepts surrounding minimalism, sculpture, and geometric form. After studying art history under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia U

Live Concert of the Greatest Irish Artists: Gaelforce

For one week in 1997, Dublin's state-of-the-art Point Theatre played host to Gael Force, possibly the greatest gathering of Celtic musicians, singers and dancers in one venue that the city has yet encountered. Many of t

Iron and Wine: Live From the Artists Den

On a chilly fall night, Atlanta’s historic Buckhead Theatre hosted an unforgettable, marathon performance by Iron and Wine. The show was a sort of homecoming for frontman Sam Beam, who grew up a few hours from Atlanta, a

The Troubles: An Artist’s Document of Ulster

Video about the political situation in Northern Ireland that coss-pollinates cinéma vérité with the nightly news, mixing on-the-scene images with a collaged soundtrack of field recordings, statistical data, and pertinen

Artists in Exile: A Story of Modern Dance in San Francisco

A film that chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film begins with dance revolutionary Anna Halprin and highlights seminal Bay Area choreographers including Mangrove, Tumbleweed, O

Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Communist bloc, this newsreel was lost in the confusion of the fighting

It's a Cold City for Street Artists

Experimental short film by Josephine Massarella

Kwa'nu'te': Micmac and Maliseet Artists

This film profiles a number of Mi’kmaq and Maliseet artists from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, showing their similarities and differences, samples of their work and the sources of their inspiration. It offers a remarkab

Serge Lifar: Artist’s Case

The story of the dancer, choreographer and ballet reformer Serhii Lifar — a native of Kyiv who became one of the most influential figures in 20th-century European art. The filmmakers explore not only his creative journey

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the advent of the Nazi takeover. Nay belonged to the persecuted generation o

Living an Artist's Life - Portraits from Ghana and Malawi

The film portrays the everyday lives of seven ambitious artists from Malawi and Ghana who are torn between authenticity, making a living, global recognition, and stereotypical expectations.

Artist's Curse, Lover's Blessing

Artist's Curse, for the poet and artist, in any form to be cursed with having to swallow the eyes of a faceless woman moon-eyed woman, whose contact with his stargaze creates a timeless eclipse. The lovely bonsai and Zah

Dreaming of Vincent - China's Copy Artists

Vincent van Gogh’s iconic paintings and a once in a lifetime trip transform a Chinese painter into a true artist. A film by Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu

Death Cab For Cutie: Live From the Artists Den

The Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest museums in the country, provided a majestic setting for indie rock favorite, Death Cab For Cutie. In the midst of a tour for its latest release, Codes and Keys, the band

Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes : Live from the Artists Den