Natural History

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

Drew's dad owns a dojo. She's a pretty good boxer... her boyfriend, Freddie, isn't so the two sneak a practice in after hours. Drew's a tough girl but tonight she broke down into a million pieces. She became the punching bag... to thin air? Distraught she runs away and drops her keys in the process. Freddie picks them up and hides them away... she has the car started and is begging Freddie to jump ship with her. Freddie doesn't disobey - he runs after but feels goosebumps at the door. There's something there and Freddie's gonna kick its ass someway, somehow.

A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui. It gives an insider's view of the artist's practice, the ingenious steps and thousands of hours of labor that convert used bottle tops into huge, opulent wall hangings.

A hilarious and terrifying statement that society is being corrupted by materialism and greed.

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

The shot’s eerily static, but the house isn’t quite right. There’s no mold in the wood, maybe it’s the bug!

A young couple and a married pair, both suffering from colds, argue over trivial matters, leading to a major ego clash by the end of the day.

Paul Hugo ten Hoopen, the 98-year-old Amsterdam painter, delves into his childhood, education, and past artworks, while exploring his philosophy on the creation of art itself. Paul’s story brings out the perspective of a professional in his field. He urges new artists to find their own voice – their own colours – to be as original as possible.

In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.

A detective with a warrant stumbles upon a plan that he never saw coming.

This fascinating exploration of the creative process follows one of Australia's leading contemporary artists Ben Quilty, as he completes one of his most challenging art works.

Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.

Documentary about the Rembrandt Association. In the 19th century, a lot of Dutch art disappeared abroad, before the Rembrandt Association stood up in 1883 to put a stop to it. Today, 140 years later, the Association still helps determine what art lovers see in Dutch museums. In their crowning year, the Association faces a difficult choice: will they make the largest contribution in their history to the purchase of Rembrandt's De Vaandeldrager? The amount of 175 million needed for the painting is causing discussion. Is this money well spent?

a short letter to a girl i've loved using visuals, sounds and some words.

Miragem

Ermisendo, a young man who lives in a forgotten indigenous region, discovers that his biological father is the presidential candidate Juan Carlos Kelqueyec. Through Ermisendo, Kelqueyec will try to sympathize with the people and win in the polls.

Neráida

A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.