Film Forager: Art on Film

For those of you who somehow aren't sick of me talking about art all the time, here's a breakdown of the art-related films I've seen. There's movies directed by artists and focusing on artists or the visual arts in general. Others are visually breathtaking films that to me have an impact similar to fine art. Some are documentaries about artists or the art trade, or are just filmed in a unique visual style.

Several of my favorite films in this category I saw before I began this blog, so they aren't reviewed here, but I've given outside links for the ones I'd really like to recommend, and I'll strive to have my own reviews up for them eventually!

A r t a n d A r t i s t D o c u m e n t a r i e s

Beautiful Dreamers
Beauty is Embarrassing
Crumb
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Grant Morrison: Walking With Gods
In the Realms of the Unreal
Man on Wire
Marwencol
The Rape of Europa
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

M o v i e s a b o u t A r t a n d A r t i s t s

A Bucket of Blood
Art School Confidential
Basquiat
Frida
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Girl With a Pearl Earring
I Shot Andy Warhol
Junebug
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Pecker
The Horse's Mouth
(Untitled)

M o v i e s M a d e b y A r t i s t s

Mirrormask (dir. by artist Dave McKean)
Office Killer (writ./dir. by photographer/performance artist Cindy Sherman)
Pepperminta (writ./dir. by video artist Pipilotti Rist)
Phase IV (dir. by influential graphic designer Saul Bass)
The Future (writ./dir. by performance artist Miranda July)
True Stories (writ./dir. by conceptual artist/Talking Heads frontman David Byrne)
Un Chien Andalou (writ. Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, dir. Luis Buñuel)

E c c e n t r i c A n i m a t i o n