“1980’s The World of Gilbert and George is really only interesting as an unwitting document of its time, but theEYE, an extended interview on the pair, is fascinating…” Guardian Guide, 17 February, 2007 Gilbert Prousch met George Passmore at St Martin’s School of Art…
Since winning the Turner Prize in 2003, Grayson Perry has become the nation’s favourite transvestite potter. In this film, he speaks engagingly about why he is an artist that uses ceramics and not a potter, and about the defining themes that run through his work. He explains the elaborate, labour…
Howard Hodgkin is one of the world’s leading painters, whose art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly coloured, sweeping compositions, which…
Martin Creed is one of Britain’s most engaging contemporary artists. His self-effacing work reflects an anxiety to communicate in a world already full of too many things. So he frequently tries to produce both something and nothing, and does so in idiosyncratic ways with the modest means from everyday…
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London’s East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet…
Many of Sam Taylor-Wood’s distinctive photographs and films depict an affluent and fashionable social scene. But her concerns are often isolation and anxiety, conflict and alienation. Her art is alluring and disarming, and also frequently formally inventive. She uses multiple screens, still images…
Although at times obscured by the artist’s celebrity, the art of Tracey Emin is serious and focussed, challenging and at times startlingly beautiful. In this film, she speaks frankly about her career, the craft of her immensely varied work, and the immediate, personal themes with which she engages:…
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a tribute to campesino histories in rural CA through the artwork of Ruben A. Sanchez, an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, as well as an unsentimental reckoning with the fate of many cultural workers who struggle to balance rent and creative…
The Eye Of Istanbul: The story of legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer, Ara Guler Available on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/at/movie/the-eye-of-istanbul/id1123713855?mt=6 Get in now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Eye_of_Istanbul?id=HARZoXBoKvY Watch…
This video diary from a 25 year old Jason Rodi about his father as they climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is shockingly personal. A visual poem of stunning beauty, The Eye of the Son is a formative journey that will take a father and son to the edges of the world. Nominated for…
A short documentary which captures the fierce and passionate eye and the prolific work of one of the great portrait artists of America. The film explores the complex and mysterious relationship between artist and subject in a richly detailed, intimate, and exciting journey through the creative process.…
The Eyes of the Journey is a poetic film that expresses the feelings of Andean culture toward Mother Earth, and the search for a deeper understanding of nature as a living being, as an eternal companion for humankind. The main character is an Andean shaman, who appears, walks and disappears in diverse…
