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An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ai Weiwei

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a building in the East End of London. Entitled...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Damien Hirst

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Serra

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Natacha Voliakovsky

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oliver Barker

Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alzek Mischeff

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Vogt

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hela Bezerra

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alison Knowles

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Mitterrand

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Sugimoto

For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weapon in his hand. After eleven minutes he was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Francis Alÿs

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Indigenous...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norval Morrisseau

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florentina Bustos

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruce Nauman

In 1983, Franz Paludetto acquired Rivara Castle at the foot of the Italian Alps. A century earlier, artists from all over Europe had gathered here to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Franz Paludetto

A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lorenzo Calvani

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ilya Kabakov

Follows Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critical perspective of his work.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfredo Jaar

Contemporary artists describe their work and discuss why and how they do it. The programs are grouped according to themes of place, spirituality,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A series of 6 Arts Documentaries, fronted by supermodel, actress and Cambridge Arts graduate, Lily Cole. Lily gets unprecedented access to some of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lily Cole

Rebellious, provocative and unapologetic. The Young British Artists crashed the 90s art scene, making Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and others household...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith Allen

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ondřej Horák