A Walk Into The Sea [DVD]

Arthouse Films

Alice Neel [DVD]

Arthouse Films

Portrait painter Alice Neel was a self-described collector of souls who recorded her sitters on canvas through six decades of the 20th century, among them Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, Allen Ginsberg and Annie Sprinkle.

Neel always sought the "authentic," moving from Greenwhich Village to Spanish Harlem just as...

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens [DVD]

Arthouse Films

Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer.

She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of...

Architectures Series 1 [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Architectures is devised by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE France, Les Films d'Ici; Centre Pompidou;...

Architectures Series 2 [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Architectures is devised by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE France, Les Films d'Ici; Centre Pompidou;...

Architectures Series 3 [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Architectures is devised by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE France, Les Films d'Ici; Centre Pompidou; Ministère de la...

Architectures Series 4 [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Architectures is devised by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE France, Les Films d'Ici; Centre Pompidou; Ministère de...

Architectures Series 5 [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Architectures is devised by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE France, Les Films d'Ici; Centre Pompidou; Ministère de la...

Architectures [DVD] Box Set

Illuminations Media

Architectures presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations.

Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE, this series of 29 films across 5 DVDs looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact...

Art & Copy: Inside Advertising's Creative Revolution [DVD]

Doug Pray

Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray, it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time - people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are unknown outside their industry.

Exploding forth from...

Art Lives: Andreas Gursky [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape colour photographs. Often likened to paintings, his photographs reflect a fascination with the ways people live in the world and how their existence impacts their surroundings.

Filmmaker, Jan Schmidt-Garre, accompanied...

Art Lives: Andy Warhol [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

This comprehensive profile of Andy Warhol was produced and directed by Kim Evans in 1987, the same year that the artist died. Originally shown in The South Bank Show and introduced by Melvyn Bragg, the film is one of the first (and best) documentaries about the whole life and career of the twentieth century’s most recognisable artist. At the heart of...

Art Lives: Bauhaus [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Bauhaus was an innovative art school designed out of the dreams of architect Walter Gropius. Gropius wanted to develop 'a visual science', and from this idea he created perhaps the 20th century’s most influential art school.

This film memoir of Bauhaus includes contributions from both former students and historians, a strong selection of artworks as well as archival footage including...

Art Lives: Claes Oldenburg [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Giant hamburgers and soft toilets. These images of consumerism, executed in disorientating materials and environments made Claes Oldenburg a key figure in the world of Pop Art.

Today, his landscape art and large sculptures are modern monuments which have made this American artist...

Art Lives: Diego Velázquez [DVD]

Illuminations Media

This resplendent 1991 film, directed by Didier Baussy-Oulianoff, begins at the opening of a major show of Diego Velazquez’ work at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

The camera follows the enormous queue of gallery-goers waiting for the show to open, immediately confronting the viewer with...

Art Lives: Donatello [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Donatello created modernity’s first life-size, freestanding
sculpture. His bronze David was a masterpiece of the early Italian Renaissance.

Familiar with classical art, he enriched sculpture with individual expression, becoming an artist much in demand. He worked for the Quattrocento’s most powerful patrons,...

Art Lives: Edgar Degas [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was one of the greatest French painters of the late nineteenth century.

This film subtly examines the relationship between his life and work, exploring his preoccupation with themes of tension, isolation and vulnerability. Horses, female nudes, and the...

Art Lives: Edouard Manet [DVD]

Illuminations Media

Édouard Manet was a French painter and, as one of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. 

His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served...

Art Lives: Eduardo Chillida [DVD]

Illuminations Media

The fusion of both modern aesthetics with Basque tradition in monumental works is what has made Chillida a legendary sculptor.

Using wood stone and iron, he created forms based on his surroundings, thus exposing their sculptural essence. Chillida even inspired the great Heidegger to...

Art Lives: Francis Bacon [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative/ruthless manner.

Deformed bodies, grimacing faces and the materiality of colour make us aware of brutality and sexuality, existential abysses and the fears of existence. Works like the portrait...

Art Lives: Frida Kahlo [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary and radical artists of the 20th century. This excellent film, was made in 1983 as a celebration of her life.

The narrative begins and ends at her ‘Blue’ house in Mexico City (Coyoacan), where Kahlo spent much of her life. At her death in 1954 her husband, the muralist...

Art Lives: Helmut Newton [DVD]

Illuminations Media

In Newton's photography, the lines between art and pornography are often blurred.

Strong women in provocative poses are seen in dramatically staged, voyeuristic shots which evoke his very distinct style of fashion, nude and portrait photography. Newton courted controversy with his images and...

Art Lives: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is the great chronicler of the Belle Epoque and Montmartre's nightclub district in Paris. Close to his motifs, the dwarfish son of a wealthy aristocrat led his short, excessive life as an artist.

Using both placards and lithographs he depicted the debauched world of cabarets and brothels using only minimal lines and...

Art Lives: Hockney At The Tate [DVD]

Illuminations Media

In 1988 David Hockney - painter, graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, writer - had a major retrospective at the Tate.

Author and presenter Melvyn Bragg met with Hockney at what is now Tate Britain to film an interview for The South Bank Show. Since he burst on to the art scene...

Art Lives: Jackson Pollock [DVD]

Arthaus Musik

Time Magazine mockingly described one of America's most important 20th century artists as "Jack the Dripper".

It did so because Jackson Pollock stood for something new: with his innovative technique of "dripping" and "pouring" paint, he originated Action painting, creating radical, subjective works which...