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Brian Clarke: The Art of Light
13:02 min.
Portrait on British glass artist Brian Clarke
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William Kentridge Interview: How We Make Sense of the World
30:24 min.
Interview with William Kentridge (South Africa 1955) who is known for his political drawings and animations.
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Erwin Olaf - Berlin
Germany 2012, 14 minutes
Documentary about the realisation of the project Berlin of photographer Erwin Olaf.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Germany 2012, Alison Klayman, 91 minutes
Documentary that follows artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and encounters increasing clashes with the Chinese government.
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Water Children
Netherlands 2011, Aliona van der Horst, 75 minutes
Documentary maker Aliona van der Horst followed in the footsteps of Dutch-Japanese pianist and performance artist Tomoko Mukaiyama who, through an art project in Japan, invites women and men to speak out about fertility.
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Rachel Whiteread - House
Great Britain 1995, 26 minutes
In 1993, artist Rachel Whiteread made a cast in concrete of an entire Victorian terraced house in London's East End.
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Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely: the Bonnie & Clyde of Art
France 2010, Louise Faure and Anne Julien, 53 minutes
Close-up episode. Dutch version of French documentary about the artist couple.
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The reality of Karel Appel
Netherlands 1961, Jan Vrijman, 15 min.
Short documentary in which Jan Vrijman portrays Karel Appel as a fierce painter's beast.
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Louise Bourgeois - Peels a Tangerine
5 minutes
Louise Bourgeois talks about and demonstrates the trick with a tangerine that her father did at the dinner table at family gatherings.
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Louise Bourgeois - Die Bildhauerin und ihr avantgardistisches Werk
Germany 2008, Camille Guichard, 43 minutes
Documentary about the sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
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Unstoppable - Artist Sean Scully
Netherlands, 2019, Nick Willing, 55 minutes
Close-up documentary. Artist Sean Scully is followed in the year he flew around the world to open fifteen important exhibitions of his work. Gradually he tells the story of his extraordinary experiences in an art world that was not always kind to him. Scully is a self-made man who grew up penniless in Dublin and London. He eventually achieved great international success with his abstract, striped paintings.
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Not without you
The Netherlands 2010, Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster, 83 min.
The artist couple Ger Lataster and Hermine van Hall must say goodbye to life and to each other. Can love and a passion for art help them through the most difficult period of their lives?
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Anselm Kiefer - The German painter and sculptor - New Documentary
60 minutes
Documentary about Anselm Kiefer.
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Re-defining Balance (as a matter of fact)
Netherlands 2016, Marieke van de Lippe, 22 minutes
A documentary about the making process of the eight meter high fountain, Re-defining Balance of Anne Wenzel in court in Zwolle.
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Leaning into the Wind - Andy Goldsworthy
Great Britain/Germany 2017, Thomas Riedelsheimer, 97 minutes
Documentary about the British landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
United States 2006, Sydney Pollack, 86 min.
Documentary that shows how the projects of the architect Frank Gehry are created. How his abstract sketches are transformed into concrete projects by means of 3D models.
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Finding Vivian Maier
United States 2013, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, 84 min.
Documentary about the American photographer Vivian Maier who worked as a nanny in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s but whose real interest was photography. She made approximately one hundred thousand photographs of American street life. After her death in 2009, Maier's archive was discovered and nowadays she is considered an important photographer.
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Gerard Richter - Painting
Germany 2011, Corinna Belz, 97 min.
The documentary shows the painter Gerhard Richter at work in his Cologne studio. He does not talk much in the film. We mainly see him plodding away on a series of large canvases.
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Work without an author
Germany 2018, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 188 min.
Biographical drama based on the life of German painter Gerhard Richter, who fled from the GDR to West Germany in 1961.
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Les Rencontres d'Arles
Netherlands 2020, Anita Mirzahi, 15 min.
Documentary about Lucien Clerque de founder of the PhotoFestival of Arles
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Intensity and Repetition: Neuroarthisatory and the Art of Gerard Caris
United Kingdom 2020, Graham Johnston, 20:26 min.
Documentary about the work of artist Gerard Caris explained by John Onians using his new theory based on neuroesthetics. With historical background stories and interview with the artist.
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Nono Reinhold
Netherlands, 2019, Andrea Müller-Schirmer and Claire Pijman, 5 min.
A short film about Nono Reinhold (Haarlem, 1929), who made beautiful color etchings but also printed for other artists in Paris and New York and was the wife of museum director Edy de Wilde. With music by Akiko Mik. Made on the occasion of the exhibition Nono Reinhold - Paris/New York/Amsterdam at the Teylers Museum in 2019.
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Frans and Marja de Boer Lichtveld 40 years Together
Netherlands, 2018, Anita Mizrahi, 12 min.
The documentary shows the life and work of the artist couple Frans and Marja de Boer Lichtveld.
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Searching For Martin Margiela
Netherlands 2015, Anita Mizrahi, 17 min.
A search for the person Martin Margiela, famous Belgian fashion designer from the 80s
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Love is The Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Great Britain 1998, John Maybury, 90 min.
Biographical drama. Paris 1971: British artist Francis Bacon is welcomed as 'the greatest living painter' at a retrospective. During the ceremony, George Dyer, Bacon's model and lover for seven years, swallows a large quantity of pills and alcohol in the hotel room, while reflecting on their tumultuous relationship.
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
United States 2005, Jeff Feuerzeig, 110 min.
Documentary about the life and work of American singer-songwriter and illustrator Daniel Johnston who suffered from bipolar disorder.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Germany 2010, Sophie Fiennes, 105 minutes
For two and a half years the filmmaker follows the German sculptor/painter Anselm Kiefer in the south of France, where from 1993 onwards he transformed a silk factory on a vast site into a mega art project with roads, towers, tunnels and more than forty exhibition halls in which he placed his works of art.
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Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
Great Britain, Germany, Finland 2001, Thomas Riedelsheimer, 90 min.
Documentaries about Scottish landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy (1956), who works with elements from nature. Sometimes he manipulates enormous stones and trees, but mostly he seeks the transience by making art with, for instance, raindrops, flower petals and reeds.
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Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer
Italy, Russia, Sweden 2019, Andrey A. Tarkovsky, 93 min.
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) liked to elaborate on his life, work and ideas in interviews. That material, both audio and film, forms the basis of this film, made by his son.
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Camille Claudel
France 1988, Bruno Nuytten, 175 min.
Biographical drama about the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) whose misfortune is not her iron will to be independent as a woman in a man's age but the encounter at age 18 with mentor Auguste Rodin, whose artistic talents are paralleled by an egomaniacal nature.
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Camille Claudel 1915
France 2013, Bruno Dumont, 95 min.
Biographical drama. Three decisive days in the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel who was put in an asylum by her family. The film is about human relationships and violence, but also about creativity, spirituality and madness.
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Eva Hesse
United States/Germany 2016, Marcie Begleiter, 108 min.
Through interviews and extensive use of archive material, the documentary presents an emotional portrait of this German-born American artist.
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David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Great Britain 2009, Bruno Wollheim, 60 min.
Documentary about David Hockney who returns from California to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire.
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