Compilation Reel

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

Manet’s portraits are rarely afforded such close attention as they are given in this exquisitely crafted and insightful film presented by art...

A man lives alone in his apartment. He tries to escape the repetitiveness of everyday life.

An mutoscope motion picture installation commissioned for the 86th anniversary of the Guggenheim museum. Later preserved and turned into a short...

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

How did Bonnard, one of the great masters of 20th-century painting, a secretive, anxious man with an ordinary everyday life, become this undisputed...

A struggling artist is tortured by his day and finds his muse in the night.

The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and...

In this graceful study of the balance between solitude and community, artist and chef Jim Denevan roams across the US, transforming landscapes into...

A Materialaktion (an art performance/happening in which objects are used to create an art piece) by Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl. The setting is a...

Documentary film about the official view of art in the Third Reich and state funding of artistic practice.

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East...