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

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is taken away. For this work, he examines anecdotal histories he has heard from Estonians, as well as stories from his own family history in the Netherlands, weaving them together into a journal-like narrative.

How have the changing views on children been reflected in their representation in art? From Baby Jesus to the first photographic portraits, an exploration of six centuries of art history through the prism of childhood.

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.

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.

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.

Hinter dem Vorhang: Das Geheimnis Vermeer

Extracorpus

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

En Plein Air

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.

Matéo, a young painter in search of inspiration, tries to express his thoughts on a white canvas. After yet another failure, he crosses paths with Amaya who will transform his new painting.

As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she is mounting. This was the last interview Alan Yentob conducted in a career spanning six decades at the BBC, bringing many of the world’s leading artists and creatives to the screen. Alan also persuaded Jenny to allow cameras into her painting studio for the first time in almost three decades.

A young artist begins to question her inspirations and relationship when a morbid painting style seeps into her mind.

A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.

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.)

The Portable Studio is a short documentary following Jenny Aitken on a day of Plein-Air painting by the sea in Edinburgh. Jenny is a professional artist, in this documentary we get a glimpse into her life and her process.

Kuiaratame

Your private classroom with Bob Ross! Presented in Bob Ross' own warm and patient style, this 3-hour video workshop graphically answers all of the questions you've been asking about the "wet- on-wet" technique. Bob covers, in great detail, the basics of Skies, Mountains, Trees, Water, Reflections, etc. In the final segment of this video, Bob helps you "assemble" all of the component parts into a finished painting. In the process, he anticipates the problems which you are most likely to encounter and provides you with clear, understandable solutions.

A portrait of a man sleeping under the open sky

Could an algorithm be able to authenticate masterpieces more reliably than human experts? And is it possible to create new painting from a long-dead master? This documentary explores the upheavals caused by the arrival of artificial intelligence in the art world.