Painting Movies

Animation by Nana Yachi. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection...

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is...

A model and a photographer, after hours of trying, strive for the perfect shot but face challenges as their high aesthetic standards get in the way.

After 6 months of having ended a relationship, a frustrated cartoonist and a young filmmaker meet again at an art exhibition. The glances, the...

A young artist begins to question her inspirations and relationship when a morbid painting style seeps into her mind.

A street artist surviving through art fraud discovers, for the first time, what it truly means to leave an authentic mark — after crossing...

A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses.

A young artist struggles to capture the beauty of a young woman who has been recently crippled and bound to a wheelchair.

Follows three friends, Marc, Serge and Yvan, and one ridiculously expensive, plain white painting. It’s procurement by one friend and differing...

As an entire town tries to forget a night of mysterious murders, Rachel delves deeper into the case uncovering secrets and unknown motives. Despite...

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a...

“This film is a reading and critical analysis of Michelangelo’s artistic language compiled with the visual language of cinema.”

An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works...

A lone farmer receives a visit from a mysterious stranger who claims he's the sole inheritor of a collection of valuable paintings. Both of their...