Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits

Laura Cumming takes a journey through more than 500 years of self-portraits and finds out how the greatest names in western art transformed themselves into their own masterpieces.

Six portraits XL : 2 Jacquotte et Daniel

Jacquotte : Once a year, in July, on the way to vacation, Jacquotte relives her childhood for a few hours in her beloved parents' home, which has remained intact. They died long ago, but nothing has been touched in the

Self-Portraits

In 1993-1994, when I was in art school, I felt like an outsider amongst outsiders.  I was queer, but there were so few out queer people around me.  I felt like I had no identity, so I started to obsessively do a numbered

Portraits of a Young Eastern-European Jewish Orphan Girl

Portraits of a Young Orphan Jewish Girl from Eastern-Europe (2003) is a very short film, a confirmation of the possibility of creating cinematic masterpieces with an non-existent budget. The charming portrait of this you

XYZ. Portraits d'une transformation

Alexandre just celebrated his 35th birthday. Having finished his doctorate, he is now pursuing a successful career as a junior researcher and professor specialized in issues surrounding social movements, the body, disabi

Portraits - La Nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

El retrato

Valentina, a young painter who takes care of her sick father, receives the visit of death, who announces that her final time has arrived. In an attempt to get more time to take care of his father, he proposes a deal: Por

Retrato

Video Portraits - Men: Issey Miyake

An intimate and loving interview with the late fashion designer Miyake in his Tokyo apartment, alongside glimpses of his groundbreaking creations. In his own words, "When I work, I don't think I'm a man or a Japanese."

Silly & Serious: The Self-Portraits of William Robinson

One of Australia’s leading landscape artists, William Robinson has twice won the Archibald Prize for his self-portraits. SILLY & SERIOUS presents Robinson at work, playing Debussy, and discussing his work: his love for o

Portraits de Voyages Yémen : Les Maisons tours

Visit to a famous Sana'a tower house with an architect

Portraits of the soul

Portraits of a Family

In this four part story, spanning almost two decades, the Lumaban family struggle to put the pieces back together after divorce and drug addiction tear them apart.

30 Second Portraits: New York Artists

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:

Portraits of Death

Renowned photographer Nathan Smythe has come up with what he believes will be his greatest work yet, a book devoted entirely to artful pictures of beautiful young men dying or just at the moment of death. And so, with th

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women

The cowgirls in this documentary are modern-day women aged six to sixty, who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous cowboy counterparts. The film spans three generations, telling the insp

Brook by Brook

An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.

Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India

The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a

Portraits in the Forest

The story of a policeman and a mysterious crime that haunts the "cursed forest" as the locals call it and which "seems to swallow those who enter it". Inspired by the novel "Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers" by Dana Dimitriu.

Portraits de Voyages La Réunion : Marche sur le feu

A Tamil from Réunion invites us to a celebration in which the men of the community walk on fire.