Painting Movies

Charlie and Rose, a young couple aiming to sell a painting entitled ‘I Think, Therefore I Want’, struggle to hide their rising...

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.

Documentary film based on the artist Akbar Padamsee.

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

While struggling to finish a painting, a young girl finds herself lost in the world of perfection and objectivity.

According to thermodynamics, a metastable system subject to external perturbations will change until a new equilibrium state is reached. Isn’t...

A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.

"I especially hope to inspire young women, because I often feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not...

Barbara Rosenthal, naked and pregnant, paints a wall.

This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by...

Rosalie, an aging art historian, falls in love with a troubled bisexual artist half her age. Their relationship becomes pure torture for them both.

An unusual game of chess between two rivals.

At Olivet, some students don’t meander past the Dairy Queen near the stoplight..but those who make the trek to the Sims Building are creative...

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris -...

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

First film by Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian.

Contemplate the "anti-art" spirit of Dadaism, its nihilistic yet humorous indictment of civilization and bizarre use of unconventional media. In the...

Tyler, a young gay man who is HIV positive, must deal with the demons of his past when he is confronted by a mysterious woman.