The Tutor: Painting a Still Life with Terrance Zdunich

The Tutor welcomes students to participate in a mysterious art class where attentive pupils will learn more than just good technique.

Painting a Legacy

Fletcher, an aspiring artist idolises his uncle, who has not been seen for years, going on a journey to try and find him, and the answer to what it means to be remembered. Along the way, he meets people who knew his uncl

The Painting of Evil

Specialized in abstract art, Hsu Pao-Ching is a middle-aged painter who struggles in his career. By chance, he begins giving at art lessons in a prison, where he discovers that Chou Chang-Ting, one of the inmates, has gr

The Painting of the Future

Edgardo Marranti paints guided by beings from other dimensions. When he started, his family and friends thought he was crazy, and so did he. In search of answers, he embarked on a path of self-knowledge that confirmed hi

Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later

Two filmmakers document three years in the life of contemporary Greek painter Stefanos Rokos, as he is working on the making of his exhibition “Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ No More Shall We Part: 14 paintin

Painted on Wood

A musical fairy tale about children's dreams using the works of painter Ondrej Zimka.

Painting with Light

Painting with Light consists of images produced by moving light. Techniques include re-filming slides in an animation fashion. Original slides are time-exposure images of color-filtered light. The experiment questions w

Behind Painted Eyes

The Young Painter

A 1922 silent film about the title young man.

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes

Since his death in 2007, the renown of Canadian painter E.J. Hughes has only continued to grow. For decades, his extraordinary works highlighting the landscapes of British Columbia have captivated the public, but his per

Painting with Light

An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff.

12 Paintings of Submission

Lech Majewski opens up the world of Jacek Malczewski, a symbolist painter from the turn of the twentieth century. In a wordless visual dialogue, the director recreates Poland’s history from the World War I to the present

Painter and Poet No. 2

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s T

Painting With Fire

A blind Syrian professor and a British painter form a deep bond through an artistic collaboration that brings both men face to face with their pasts.

Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson

“Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson” is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson. In moraines near Skaftafell Glacier and close to the Arctic Circle at Tröllaskagi peninsula we discover the film’s dynamic corn

The Painter

Painting the Lake

A house painter in a small town turns to insurance fraud in order to pay for his brother's medical bills.

The Spell of the Sand Painting

The Ryueis and the Tenmokus fight over gold bullion secretly stored away in Osaka Castle. A dramatization of a popular novel - three competing studios also produced their own versions of the story.

The Art Painting

The room: empty except for a toilet, a bed and an easel. The man: locked in, confused and informed that he's a famous artist. The result: chaos, insanity and some art.

Short Films 1975: #10 (Painted Lightning)

Begins and ends with flashes of scratched 'lighting'. A small portrait of one of the Brakhage kids is sandwiched in between light studies and scratch-homages to Jerome Hill.