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- DirectorCheryl DunnStarsDashiell Alexander Whitney SnowJeffrey DeitchLeo FitzpatrickDash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow's unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn's exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.
- DirectorWeixi ChenHao WuAnonymousRaw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
- DirectorDennis SchollStarsDavid AnfamNeal BenezraSandra Still CampbellFiercely independent, idiosyncratic and iconic. A portrait of painter Clyfford Still, one of the most influential and yet least known American Abstract Expressionists.
- DirectorVeronica Gonzalez PeñaStarsPat SteirPat Steir: Artist is a profoundly personal portrait of the groundbreaking woman painter by her friend, novelist and filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña - the result is an intimate, character driven, revelatory film.
- DirectorCatherine GundStarsAgnes GundThelma GoldenJohn WatersAn exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.
- DirectorDaniel TraubStarsPaul GreengardAgnes GundStas KaroliszynInto Her Own is the story of a woman's struggle to overcome the hardship of her upbringing and to follow her calling to become an artist.
- DirectorAi WeiweiIn February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial bill sparked immediate outrage over widespread fear of arbitrary detention and politically motivated trials that would decimate Hong Kong's autonomy under 'one country, two systems.' Protests escalated into epic pro-democracy demonstrations, in part led by young people connected via social media. COCKROACH, filmed during the height of the protests, captures the extraordinary intensity of an unprecedented era in Hong Kong's history.
- DirectorJennifer TrainerStarsLaurie AndersonJohn BarrettSimeon BrunerA rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
- DirectorHalina DyrschkaStarsErnst Peter FischerJulia VossAnna Laestadius LarssonThe first abstract artist was a woman, misjudged and concealed, Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre.
- DirectorElsa Flores AlmarazRichard MontoyaStarsZack De La RochaShepard FaireyDolores HuertaExplore the life of Chicano activist Carlos Almaraz, sexual outlaw and visionary painter of some of the most unforgettable images of Southern California.
- DirectorNick WillingA year in the life of abstract artist Sean Scully as he flies around the world to open 15 major museum exhibitions - a journey that also reveals his extraordinary life story. Now, at the age of 73, Scully opens up about his unique experiences spanning 55 years in an often hostile art world, how he built a reputation from nothing, having grown up penniless on the streets of Dublin and London, often homeless as a child and running with street gangs as a teenager, to turn his striped paintings into the huge success they are today.
- DirectorThomas PiperDirector Thomas Piper filmed the garden designer Piet Oudolf over five seasons as he designed gardens from New York's High Line and Hauser and Wirth's prairie garden in Somerset, England to his own private garden at Hummelo in Holland.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsLeanne BenjaminKausikan RajeshkumarJo ShapcottA documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsGeir WestbyGro FraasKerstii AllumThis biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life
- DirectorOrson WellesGary GraverOja KodarStarsOrson WellesOja KodarFrançois ReichenbachA documentary about fraud and fakery.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsPhilip LeiderLeo CastelliWillem de KooningThe definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.
- StarsJohn BergerAnya BostockEva FigesJohn Berger presents his insights on how people see. Through examples of Art History Berger shows how our very sense of sight has been transformed. By discovering why this is so, according to Berger, "we shall discover something about ourselves."
- DirectorChris McKimStarsAlan BarrowsBarry BlindermanBonoA controversial artist blazes a trail for other gay image makers in New York 's 1980s scene, only to perish at the end of the decade from the AIDS virus.
- DirectorSeamus HaleyLaurent RichardAurélia RouvierStarsRobin BartonBanksy is a household name, but behind this name hides a multitude of stories, artworks, stunts, political statements and identities, leading to one of the art world's biggest unanswered questions- who is Banksy?