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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Ballet · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At age 27, Tanny was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Biography

An intimate and powerful encounter with one of today's most politically influential artists and the system he challenges.

Beuys

Art Documentaries · Fine Art

Using previously untapped visual and audio sources, this one-of-a-kind chronicle of visionary artist Joseph Beuys is an intimate and in-depth look at a human being, his art and ideas, and the way they have impacted the world.

Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Staff Picks · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painti…

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and…

Bill Cunningham New York

Photography · Art Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society…

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

Documentary · Art Documentaries

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retr…

Boneshop of the Heart

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

This acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the creative process through incisive portraits of five seminal figures from a significant chapter in contemporary American folk art. Variously described as outsiders, naive, or visionary, the artists pr…

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Culture

For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a tasty peek at some of the world's most inn…

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Peabody Award Winners · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters traces the powerful story of how one of the most celebrated works of art to come out of the AIDS epidemic revitalized two disparate communities, 30 years apart, both struggling to make sense of the plagues of their generations.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Film Documentaries

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Documentary · Art Documentaries

DECEPTIVE PRACTICE traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller.

Walden

Art Documentaries · Avant Garde

Walden, Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas'friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground.

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Lesbian

Dirty Diaries is a collection of twelve short pornographic films created by a group of feminist filmmakers in Sweden. The series of shorts is intended as a feminist response to traditional pornography -- porn films made by women to explore and celebrate, rather than exploit, female sexuality.

Eva Hesse

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Biography

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with comp…

Finding Fela

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political importance and how his impact transformed the life of many Nigerians and rights activists throughout the world.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Architecture · Documentary · Art Documentaries

A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik.

Gerhard Richter Painting

Staff Picks · Documentary · Art Documentaries

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING offers unprecedented insight into the life and work of one of the greatest artists of our time, and is a "gorgeously rendered work of art" (Variety) in its own right.

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

Music Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

A vibrant chronicle of one of today's most notorious and revered live bands, this film follows Eugene Hutz's gypsy-punk brigade around the world as they spread their liberating libertine musical gospel. Hutz fuses his gypsy heritage with a love of punk rock and burlesque.

Great Directors

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…

The Great Museum

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner-workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world.

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation

Art Documentaries · Music Documentaries

Featuring poignant interviews with Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Don McLean, Peter Yarrow, Arlo Guthrie, Lucy and Carly Simon, Tom Chapin and Judy Collins, among dozens of other music luminaries, GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION combines talking heads with rare archival footage …

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate moments, with clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs.

Hedda Gabler

Art Documentaries · Theatre

Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s play is a shattering exploration of ambition, domestic power and gender roles. This bracing dramatization brings new dimensions to Hedda Gabler’s character.

Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Fine Art

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch will be holding a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago.

A History of Israeli Cinema

Historic Drama · Film Documentaries · Documentary

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics

Hooligan Sparrow

Sundance Film Festival · Peabody Award Winners · Documentary

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government's reactio…

In The Image

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Palestinian women volunteers are given video cameras and record the brutality and human rights violations by Israelis that are a part of their daily lives.

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, …

The Juche Idea

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Culture

Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70's to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. The story is told through the films she ma…

Landscape Film: Roberto Burle Marx

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Earth Day

A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.

The Last Resort

Photography · Art Documentaries · Documentary

The Last Resort resurrects Miami Beach of the 1970s, home to a vibrant population of Jewish retirees, through vivid photographs captured by a pair of young artists who dedicated themselves to documenting this unique and fleeting chapter in the city’s history.

Lost Lost Lost

Art Documentaries · Avant Garde

Lost Lost Lost, comprised of fourteen years of footage, documents Jonas Mekas' early years in New York as he and his brother Adolfas build their new life in America, discovering the city and the burgeoning film and arts community of the 1950 and 60s downtown scene.

Louvre City

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

LOUVRE CITY takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, end at nightfall, and chronicle the lives of urban dwellers at work and at play. Rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, director Nicolas Philibert shows us the everyday l…

La Maison de la Radio

Documentary · Art Documentaries

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have), a master of the documentary genre, LA MAISON shows the day-to-day of a beloved cultural institution, as radio hosts, producers and journalists p…

The Cinema According to Mark Rappaport

Experimental · Art Documentaries · Short Films

Born in Brooklyn, NY and residing in Paris since the early 2000s, Mark Rappaport is known as a trailblazer of the video essay form, thanks to his decades-long career creating painstakingly assembled works that interrogate the cinematic medium through his striking juxtapositions. Rappaport’s ca…

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Documentary · Art Documentaries

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty …

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Documentary · Art Documentaries

The first documentary about Maya Angelou celebrates her life and reveals new insight into the life of this legendary performer, writer, poet and activist. 

Minimalism

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life

Monk With a Camera

Photography · Buddhism · Documentary

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1972.

Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Culture

With brush, ink, and rice paper, Zen painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han uses the play of light and dark to explore energy, creativity, and the art of life. On the verge of his 75th birthday, with a new love in his life, Alok employs his teachings to confront his personal history.

Museum Town

Architecture · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Directed by Jennifer Trainer, a former journalist and one of MASS MoCA's original builders, and narrated by Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep, the documentary tells the story of an unconventional museum, the small town of North Adams, MA it calls home, and the great risk, hope, a…

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

LGBTQ · Documentary · Art Documentaries

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according …

The Price of Everything

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Fine Art

Exploring the labyrinth of the contemporary art world, The Price of Everything examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, from current market darlings Jeff Koons, Gerh…

The Red Chapel

Sundance Film Festival · Documentary · Art Documentaries

In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime.

SEMBENE!

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Historic Drama

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This true story celebrates how the father of African cinema, against enormous odds, fought a monumental, 50-year battle to give Africans a voice.

Strand: Under The Dark Cloth (plus Manhatta)

Photography · Art Documentaries · Fine Art

Beautifully crafted, thoroughly researched and illustrated with some of the photographer's most famous images, this documentary sheds light on noteworthy photographer Paul Strand.

Talking Pictures

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

If paintings could talk, would they speak poetry? That’s the question answered by TALKING PICTURES, a love poem in film. Directed by Oscar nominee Kristi Zea (Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray; Notes from the Field). Only available on Kino Now.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

This documentary chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. The film follows The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk), and charts their brave, foolish, and often exhilarating attempts to navigate the gap between their cultures and…

The Jeff Koons Show

Art Documentaries · Art

A documentary on the life and work of artist Jeff Koons, told through the perspective of Koons himself, curators, gallerists, and fellow artists.  

Tomorrow We Disappear

Documentary · Art Documentaries · World Cinema

When their home is sold to real-estate developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Delhi’s Kathputli Colony must find a way to unite – or splinter apart forever.

Two in the Wave

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.

Walking on Water

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

An intimate portrait of renowned installation artist Christo and the intense planning and construction of his 2016 art piece, The Floating Piers, a dahlia-yellow walkway atop Italy’s Lake Iseo eventually experienced by over 1.2 million people.

Wojnarowicz

LGBTQ · Photography · Art Documentaries

This fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz reveals his fiercely political, unapologetically queer approach to art that criticized mainstream indifference to AIDS, the epidemic that would take his life at age 37.

The Woodmans

Photography · Art Documentaries · Fine Art

A fascinating, unflinching portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist's work (including experimental videos and journal entries) and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and George (a ceramic sculptor and painter/photographer).