Contemporary Art Movies

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

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

What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on...

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

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,...

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,...

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

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

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

Exiled, yet internationally celebrated Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai's demons come to life as he tries to flee South Africa following...

A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

North Star: Mark di Suvero is a 1977 documentary film about Mark di Suvero that was produced by François de Menil and Barbara Rose. Born in...

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...

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

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

Lifting the lid on the fascinating last decade of Andy Warhol's life and the legacy he left for future artists, through never-before-seen footage and...

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...

Research and dissemination documentary-film about contemporary art in which more than 30 staff members of museums and galleries, visual and sound...