Artist Movies

An anthropomorphic rat repeatedly wakes up in its bed, leaves, presumably goes about its life, and returns back home in the evening. All we are...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

In 2002, Sophie Constantinou and Bill Weir interviewed Padgett about his life and works, specifically his friendship and collaborations with the New...

Ester Hernandez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for fostering community and...

A very unique artist who specializes in paper mache art, Armenian artist Susanna Mkrtchyan is admired not only for her artistic talent but for the...

Zakarya Diouf, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for his vision in unifying the...

The documentary accompanies Irish-born artist Sean Scully as he works on his piece “Grey Wolf”.

The artist Upi Kärri is trying to find one of his works after a decade it went missing.

The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Nancy Hom with the Helen Crocker Russell Award, made to an under-recognized,...

Anna Halprin, choreographer, for pioneering the post-modern dance movement. For more than 60 years, you have been a seminal force in dance and music...

Joe Brainard (1941-1994) was an artist particularly noted for his work in collage and comics. Brainard’s artistic career took off during his...

Joe Brainard (1941-1994) was an artist particularly noted for his work in collage and comics. Brainard’s artistic career took off during his...

Tina, Photographer and Revolutionary is a documentary that blends animation and live action to chronicle the life of Tina Modotti, a pioneering...

This documentary describes Bonnard’s relationship with contemporary artists such as Gauguin, Matisse, Cezanne, Seurat and Renoir, his personal...

"Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades" tracks the artist's career and shows her moving forward fearlessly toward new shapes and concepts for her unique style...

A documentary about the German-American movie poster artist Will Williams made by his close friend Eckhard "Ecki" Baum.

A short 1978 documentary about artist Alice Neel.

"Three Colours Cezanne" analyses the radical nature of Cezanne's painting, tracing its origins in the art of the nineteenth century and the work of...