A unique film following an international cast of three generations of women artists from Cairo, France, Germany, Iran, the United States and the United Kingdom who are forging their careers in the London art scene. The film takes you on an intimate but fast-paced journey, moving the lens between art and life to reveal the dynamic and multi-faceted story of this enigmatic calling. It's in the negotiation between art and life, that the artist emerges....

A documentary feature film looking at the community of artists and aficionados with a great love of Melville's classic, Moby-Dick.

Caustic wit, man about town, James McNeill Whistler was the original art star. Famous for his patent leather shoes, monocle, and uptown swagger, Whistler's theatrics attracted the curiosity of buyers and the attention of the critics. But beneath the high gloss and mannered style, the struggle of this pioneering genius to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and would revolutionize the art world in...

Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like, 'eighth wonder of the world' art caves into the sandstone cliffs of Northern New Mexico. Each creation takes him years to complete, and each is a masterwork. But patrons who have commissioned caves have cut off nearly all of his projects due to artistic differences. Fed up, Ra has chosen to forego all commissions to create his own Magnum Opus, a massive 10-year project.

A portrait of animator and independent filmmaker Bill Plympton, who after working as an illustrator in publications such as the New Yorker, Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy, turned to independent film. In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his short film, 'Your Face' and has since received critical acclaim for numerous short and feature films.

Robert Williams was an artist in search of a movement. He was a prolific oil painter whose painstakingly detailed work often featured naked women, death, destruction, booze and clowns.

DVD-R. "For more than a decade, Judith Scott (1943-2005) was deeply involved in making large, colorful sculptures out of found objects and yarn. Her works are abstract, multilayered and, ultimately, a mystery, as she could not tell us what they mean. Judith had Down syndrome, was deaf, and did not speak. These sculptures were her most complex means of communication. Judith spent thirty-five years institutionalized, with no creative outlet. Because...

Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868-1957) was a promising artist who in 1924 was placed in a mental institution where she would spend the rest of her life. "Packed in a trunk" follows filmmaker Jane Anderson, Wilkinson's niece, as she investigates her aunt's art and life, making numerous revealing discoveries along the way.

Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometime before it is even finished.

An entertaining and revelatory 'secret history' of feminist art, Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates the under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics. Starting from its roots in the 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details developments in women's art through the 1970s and explores how the pioneering artists created the most significant...