Contemporary Art Movies

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work...

David Beck's highly original, intricate, and kinetic artwork combines sculpture, painting, textiles, and mechanics on a scale that creates a genre...

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing...

Tom Hill, a Seneca artist and curator, explores the works of four contemporary Indigenous artists.

A follow up to award winning documentary 'Herb & Dorothy', the film captures the ordinary couple's extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they...

Documentary about the not-likely-legendary Portuguese art group from the 1980's.

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

Symphonie 'Monotone-Silence', 1947-1948 "During this period of concentration, I created, around 1947--1948, a 'monotone' symphony whose theme...

In Dear Home of Scars, we see celebrated visual artist Ibrahim Mahama return to his hometown of Tamale in Northern Ghana to visit Red Clay Studio, a...

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the...

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

The cruelty of the world is driving us further and further away from ourselves, sacrificing our very reason for being in pursuit of a nonexistent...

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

In this hyper-realistic digitally rendered video, sandwiches are assembled in sequence. Each component, from the first slice of bread to the last, is...