Movies: Arts

  • 2015
    Night and Day

    Night and Day (2015)

    Night and Day

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    To celebrate Arena's 40th anniversary, a new film made entirely from its own archive, evoking the one experience common to all - the 24-hour cycle from dawn to dusk to dawn again....

    Night and Day
  • 2022
    NARC. Mini-Doc – Combining The Arts: Spaces For All

    NARC. Mini-Doc – Combining The Arts: Spaces For All (2022)

    NARC. Mini-Doc – Combining The Arts: Spaces For All

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    Lizzie Lovejoy’s mini-documentary explores the world of non-traditional performance spaces, especially in the Tees Valley and celebrating the fantastic work they do. Lizzie spoke to Bobby Benjamin, artist and curator of Pineapple Black in Middlesbro...

    NARC. Mini-Doc – Combining The Arts: Spaces For All
  • 2023
    Portrait of the King as a Child

    Portrait of the King as a Child (2023)

    Portrait of the King as a Child

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    In 1983, Franz Paludetto acquired Rivara Castle at the foot of the Italian Alps. A century earlier, artists from all over Europe had gathered here to establish the Rivara School of Painting. We witness the story of Italy during the latter half of the...

    Portrait of the King as a Child
  • 2006
    National Geographic: Lost Treasures of Afghanistan

    National Geographic: Lost Treasures of Afghanistan (2006)

    National Geographic: Lost Treasures of Afghanistan

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    During the last three decades, war and terrorism have devastated much of Afghanistan's rich cultural past. Two giant Buddha statues were blown up by the Taliban, gold and priceless archaeological artifacts disappeared, artworks were destroyed, histor...

    National Geographic: Lost Treasures of Afghanistan
  • 2021
    Unprovoked: A Creative Process

    Unprovoked: A Creative Process (2021)

    Unprovoked: A Creative Process

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    Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains inter...

    Unprovoked: A Creative Process
  • 2013
    Just Because Comedy Festival

    Just Because Comedy Festival (2013)

    Just Because Comedy Festival

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    Top comics Trevor Noah, Loyiso Gola, Kagiso Lediga, Eugene Khoza and David Kibuuka join together to perform live at the reknowned Just Because Comedy Festival in South Africa, giving back to the lesser privileged... JUST BECAUSE they can!...

    Just Because Comedy Festival
  • 2022
    Call it the burning

    Call it the burning (2022)

    Call it the burning

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    One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of bereaved mothers and gives dignity to their grief....

    Call it the burning
  • 2008
    Waiting for Hockney

    Waiting for Hockney (2008)

    Waiting for Hockney

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    A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means to fame and fortune. But he also believes that only one man can lead him there---the famous artist David Hockney. What happens when you finally meet t...

    Waiting for Hockney
  • 2007
    Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia

    Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia (2007)

    Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia

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    With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this video expresses the scale and power of the Burning Man experience. Superb cinematography and editing are combined to make this is one of the most moving Burning Man vid...

    Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia
  • 2011
    The World's Most Expensive Paintings

    The World's Most Expensive Paintings (2011)

    The World's Most Expensive Paintings

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    Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the plan...

    The World's Most Expensive Paintings
  • 2004
    Janine F.

    Janine F. (2004)

    Janine F.

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    The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who in 2002 caused a commotion from the rooftop of a Berlin building....

    Janine F.
  • 2019
    Run Free

    Run Free (2019)

    Run Free

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    In 2016 eleven young men from Parade Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica travelled to Scotland for the first time, bringing their powerful parkour performance Run Free to the National Theatre of Scotland’s Home/Away festival. Now the story of their journey ...

    Run Free
  • 2025
    A Ponte das Artes

    A Ponte das Artes (2025)

    A Ponte das Artes

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    Anna tells her girlfriend about the time she tried to read The Magic Mountain....

    A Ponte das Artes
  • 2015
    Picasso: Love, Sex and Art

    Picasso: Love, Sex and Art (2015)

    Picasso: Love, Sex and Art

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    Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner....

    Picasso: Love, Sex and Art
  • 1969
    Echo in the Desert

    Echo in the Desert (1969)

    Echo in the Desert

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    In the vastness of the Iranian desert, young artists strive for freedom, community, and the preservation of their cultural heritage in the ancient caravanserai of Deyr-e Gachin, while facing the harsh conditions of their surroundings....

    Echo in the Desert