Black-Eyed Susan: Portrait of an Actress

A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan

Idil Biret: The Portrait of a Child Prodigy

When Idil was seven, the Turkish congress passed a special law which allowed her to study in Paris. Away from her friends, in an alien city, she was now working under strict supervision, while dreaming of running away.

Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait

Solving the mysteries of Leonardo DA Vinci's first known portrait, the first of only three women he ever painted.

Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

This 23-minute, 16mm color film by Nancy V. Raine (Producer/Co-Director) and Richard Leacock (Co-Director/Cinematographer) is a poetic, lyrical, impressionistic collaboration by Raine, a poet and writer, Leacock, a leadi

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant

Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that "portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes", such as the flow of the tide on a seashore, the motion of finely-tuned machinery, and sunligh

Dagmar et Eve. Un portrait de Dagmar Bürger et Eve Eiholzer

(Re)Born, a Self-Portrait

A body dies, and a new one lives.

La faute des fleurs: A Portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa

A mini-documentary about avant-garde Japanese musician Kazuki Tomokawa. Tomokawa is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early 1970s. He is often described as a "screaming philosophe

The Portrait of the Young Artist in the 21st Century

Through the prism of his own local position, the young artist views the circumstances, conditions, and rules of the game — how to become a successful artist.

I Am Wanda

Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.

Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)

Driven by a quest to capture a landscape reduced to flatness and sky, Viola travels to Chott El-Djerid. The film opens with images of snowy prairies and winter scenes, mirrored by warm, vibrating desert vistas. Through p

A Secret Portrait of Wan Hoi-Ling

A sensuous, semi-fictional film installation that reconstructs the obscured life of Wan Hoi-Ling, who many have regarded as Singapore’s first female filmmaker. She co-directed Mutiara (1940), the first Singapore-Made Mal

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein is a 1992 short animated documentary directed by Joyce Borenstein about her father, the Canadian painter Sam Borenstein. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Be

John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music

Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself. Highlights include pe

Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen

A tribute to a living legend, celebrating the life and music of the artist Morten Lauridsen.

Nicolás Guagnini: Self-Portrait with Cucumber / Autorretrato con pepino

Woody Herman: Blue Flame - Portrait of a Jazz Legend

The life, music and legacy of bandleader and clarinetist Woody Herman is explored in this documentary that includes interviews with the master, himself, along with musicians and jazz historians such as Dan Morgenstern, T

The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel Stuart who almost seized power in 1745, wa

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It e