Painting Movies

This short documentary follows artist Trey Abdella as he smashes cherub angels and assembles a new body of work inspired by the idea of a...

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, Claudette’s Star depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a...

Two friends wonder about the meaning of a weird picture that one of them has framed on the wall. Maybe that absurd doodle has more sense than they...

The art of creating beauty from misery, using our bodies as canvases.

Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The...

Barbara Rosenthal, naked and pregnant, paints a wall.

A grieving artist and his struggle to find worth within his work.

The film presents the rich and complex personality of Jerzy Krawczyk, a painter from the city of Łódź. Through a fusion of artistic...

Inside his studio, painter Philip Trusttum launches into a new work. He employs ordinary house paint to create a bold, large-scale painting, tells...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process...

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in...

This critofilm analyzes painting in Pompeii between 59 and 79 AD, the year of the eruption of Vesuvius. Through long continuous shots, various works...

A young artist and his friend reevaluate their contradicting perceptions on life and who they're becoming to eachother.

Documentary about the painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes who, in 1911, left London for the wild Arenig Valley in North Wales. Over three...

A critofilm analysing the pittorial style of the Early Renaissance painter Piero Della Francesca.

A documentary that introduces FIT Hives, a student-run organization whose mission is to educate the FIT community about the importance of bees to the...

Stemming from her adoption, a curious girl navigates who she is and what defines her as human, confronted by her relationship with her sister and an...

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

An experimental filming exploration of the details of the work "The Garden of Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch.

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20...