New York City Post Card Painting

A short film by John Baldessari

8mm Portrait Series - Reel #2: Lynn Shelton Paints Silk

Painting with Joan

Are you curious about Minnesota's #3 public-access painting show? Painting with Joan is coming to the Sundance Film Festival! Watch Joan paint beautiful snowy mountains and debate extraterrestrial sexuality with herself!

Attention! … Painting

Intended as a documentation of Polish artist and theatre-maker Tadeusz Kantor’s “informal painting”, Mieczysław Waśkowski’s film develops a hectic experimental life of its own. The gestural application of paint is staged

A Painter of Our Times

Husain is a painter of our time. In his work there is no dilemma of being born between tradition and modernity, Indianness and Westerness. Maqbul Fida Husain was born in the town of Sholapur. His grandfather was a tins

Elaine de Kooning Paints a Portrait

In filmmaker Betty Jean Thiebaud’s own portrait of the Abstract Expressionist artist, Elaine de Kooning discusses her work as she paints a new portrait of her friend and fellow artist, Aristodimis Kaldis. Over de Kooning

A Painting for My Mother

For her sixth birthday, a little girl receives her first box of coloured pencils from her mother

A Cold Beauty Painted Without My Heart

Angel Of Virtue, Thou Art Blessed With Two Fretful Eyes Like Scattered Stars Melting Against A Slaughtered Sky. I Have Lost Count Of How Many Moons Have Shined Divine In Your Absence. A Thousand Crying Voices Drop Their

Okeanos Painted Version

Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and

The Painter of Flowers

My Fourth Painting

Chicago 2010

Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji

A documentary about the iconoclastic painter Yamashita Kikuji that depicts the 1969 Tomurai-ten (Funeral Exhibition) of then-recent work by Yamashita and his late older brother Taniguchi Kunbi, the living space he shared

I'm Painting Some Imagination

About two young artists, Johannes and Anette who are both intellectually disabled. Through art, they get the opportunity to express themselves in full freedom.

A Proposal for a PowerPoint Presentation on Philip Guston's painting Evidence

This is a commissioned project for San Francisco MOMA's Open Space website. Herschend was asked to choose a work from their permanent collection and create a reaction. He chose to create a proposal for a potential PowerP

The Angel that Stands by Me: Minnie Evans' Paintings

Fifth in the series "Visions of Paradise." Directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf. 1983. Minnie Evans is the embodiment of the visionary artist. She is an 88-year-old Black painter in North Carolina who has created a

The Painter's Pen

Every fifteen days, Antoine, five, spends the weekend at his father's house. Time is counted, limited, condensed. For them, two days to do, to do again, to learn, to understand one another and to each other is little ...

The Joshua Painting

Upon visiting an art gallery, a young man has a visceral reaction to a painting hanging on the wall.

Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting

Developed as an adjunct to the exhibition Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting, this 35-minute film is a co-production with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. It is comprised

Sunday Painting

Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is maki

Painting the Dandelion Resurrection

Susan Bettmann’s Painting the Dandelion Resurrection trains the camera on Vermont icon Peter Schumann, co-founder and creative force of Bread and Puppet Theater. And basically he does what the title says—he paints. Schum