Film

Film review

A film about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe shows the limitations of the artist documentary genre

"This World Is Not My Own", which recently premiered at South by Southwest, parallels Rowe’s life with that of the gallerist who championed her work

Johnny Depp is painting other celebrities—and making a killing from the sales

The movie star is fetching millions for his portraits of Bob Marley and Heath Ledger

Nam June Paik the prophet: documentary creates chronological collage of pioneering video artist's life

Director Amanda Kim’s "Moon Is the Oldest TV" supplements a timeline of the artist’s life with archival footage of his work

Michael Snow, avant-garde film-maker and sculptor, has died aged 94

The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures

Booksreview

How art inspired director Stanley Kubrick’s famous horror film The Shining

Two recently published, richly illustrated books contain a wealth of movie ephemera including photographs, concept designs, postcards and scripts

Hilma af Klint goes multimedia: NFTs launched on Pharrell Williams's Goda platform are latest digital offering of Abstract artist's work

The pioneering Swedish artist is having a moment, with a newly-released biopic, new VR and AR experiences and NFT editions

Film review

Artist Mika Rottenberg’s first feature film captures a futuristic but familiar domestic isolation

‘Remote’, co-directed by Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, finds Okwui Okpokwasili’s main character escaping her apartment through virtual reality

A brush with... John Akomfrah

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jackson Pollock to Virginia Woolf

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall
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Multiple William Kentridges dramatise the philosophy of art-making in new television series

Three parts of the nine-part work premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month

Film review

'Dalíland' offers a by-the-numbers biopic no one needed or will remember

The film, starring Ben Kingsley as the late Surrealist artist, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month

Film review

Martine Syms's first feature film gleefully deconstructs the MFA experience

In “The African Desperate”, an art school student navigates microaggressions and social dynamics that are only slight exaggerations of art world tensions

A new documentary tracks the ups and downs of ‘making it’ in the contemporary art world

Kelcey Edwards’s documentary delves into some of the open secrets underpinning today’s art world

Mediafeature

New documentary sheds light on artist Eric Ravilious, a romantic visionary lost in war

Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War

French pavilion: Once-banned movie about Algerian war of independence inspires cinematic installation

Artist Zineb Sedira puts Algerian film under the spotlight, as country marks 60 years as a sovereign state

Film blog

Who is the discerning Midwestern collector in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch?

And the nominees for the real-life patron who inspired “Maw Clampette” are...

Australian artist couple pack up their video cameras and head to Ukraine to film impact of war

George Gittoes and Hellen Rose will create a large “peace mural” in Kyiv and develop collaborative videos and performances with locals

Film review

At Sundance, new films tackle painful legacies through archaeology, urban design and more

Also featured is a visually stunning documentary about bird rescuers in Delhi and a cinematic essay about the sexual power dynamics of cinema

Chicagointerview

“It’s just people living their lives”: Painter Greg Breda captures moments of quiet transformation in Black cinema

The artist’s solo exhibition at Patron Gallery includes images based on films by the pioneering film star Sidney Poitier, who died earlier this month

A brush withinterview

'My work rejects the linear time developed in conventional films': Isaac Julien on Lina Bo Bardi, displaying art and the Italian Renaissance

The British artist and filmmaker on his favourite poets, music and artists on the A brush with… podcast

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Long-awaited Lee Miller biopic starring Kate Winslet adds Jude Law to cast

The film, which is expected to begin production in 2022, chronicles Miller’s life and work as a photographer from 1938 to 1948

Film review

Disasters sweep across the screen in Nature by Artavazd Peleshian

The first new film in 30 years by the veteran Armenian director, commissioned by the Fondation Cartier, had its premiere at the NY Film Festival this week

‘The whole of cinema is under threat’: Tacita Dean on vaccinations, Giotto and the future of film

The British moving image artist tells us about her favourite books, music and artists on the A brush with… podcast

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The Lost Leonardo—a thriller-like film on the world’s most expensive painting—opens in the UK on 10 September

The documentary features experts including editor-in-chief of The Art Newspaper, Alison Cole, and editor-at-large Georgina Adam

Filmmaker Oliver Ressler accuses YouTube of censorship after account suspended 'without warning'

Austrian artist who creates political and environmental documentaries believes his videos have been deleted because of their "anti-capitalist content"

Warehouse of the Cinemateca Brasileira is struck by fire

Lawsuit was filed against the Brazilian government earlier this month citing the imminent risk of a blaze

Film feature

What happens if you cross breast milk with celluloid? Enter the weird world of handmade film

A new season of experimental cinema has opened at the Barbican showing works made by drawing, painting, scratching and otherwise messing about with the surface of film

An exhibition at Pioneer Works captures the 'perverse seduction' of nuclear weapons

The artist Smriti Keshari and the writer Eric Schlosser have adapted their acclaimed 2016 film into a blackbox format for the Brooklyn venue