After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

Crack-Up

September 1946 •English

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Kuiaratame

March 2023 •Spanish

Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street

July 1915 •French

Unique film of the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas captured walking down a street in Paris in 1915.

Quantum Cowboys

October 2023 •English

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!

The Last Vermeer

September 2019 •English

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

Teenage Ghost Girl

July 1984 •Thai

After the family moved to the new home, their daughter is possessed by a male demon, which is the same man in an old painting.

Extracorpus

December 2004 •French

Legend of Destruction

June 2021 •Hebrew

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.

Hinter dem Vorhang: Das Geheimnis Vermeer

June 2021 •German

Fossil

September 2021 •

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a self-destructive chain of events, coming from the dark abyss of his subconsciousness.

The Summer House

December 1993 •English

Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

The Picasso Summer

August 1969 •English

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

Tim's Vermeer

December 2013 •English

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

En Plein Air

September 2022 •Dutch

Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

May 2023 •English

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love.

William Hogarth

June 1965 •English

According to Bernard Cohn's review, the directors "show that the painter of British society at the beginning of the 18th century was not only ahead of his time in his aesthetic theories, but that he carried within him the signs that allow us to recognize a creator." (Positif, no. 70, June 1965, p. 73.)