Painting A Portrait on the Fringe / 2020

The city of Krems is divided in two. East lies modern and industrial Krems-Ost. West lies the Wachau valley, UNESCO world heritage. "Painting a portrait: On the fringe of world heritage" tells the story of three painters who lived and worked in the Wachau at the turn of the 19th century.

Portrait of the Artist as Pierrot /

Portrait of the Artist as Pierrot

Revealing the Essence in a Portrait / 2021

An experimental investigation of the vagina as an individual living organism. Throughout art history, the female body has been depicted as a passive figure and object. It’s time to understand it as active, with a voice, capable of actions. The work investigates from a neutral perspective, leaving space for an independent creature with a strong voice. It does not need to be put in relation to an action or an object to exist. It takes its own breaths.

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank / 1986

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking. This documentary which examines his life through his films and photographs, includes interviews with many of his collaborators and contemporaries. Written, directed and edited by Philip Brookman, Amy Brookman

Hitler's People: A Portrait of the Third Reich / 2018

How was Adolf Hitler able to count on the German public even in the face of unspeakable suffering and impending doom? Evocative and previously unseen private archive footage, much of it in colour, shows life in Nazi Germany from 1933 onwards till the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. This documentary is an intimate and revealing portrait of the German...

Silly & Serious: The Self-Portraits of William Robinson / 2008

One of Australia’s leading landscape artists, William Robinson has twice won the Archibald Prize for his self-portraits. SILLY & SERIOUS presents Robinson at work, playing Debussy, and discussing his work: his love for old Laurel and Hardy movies; how humour and sadness can exist in the same portrait

Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls / 1995

Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls is a 1995 American short documentary film about artist Jim Dine produced by Nancy Dine and Richard Stilwell. The film follows Dine as he produces an exhibition by drawing in charcoal directly on the walls of a German museum. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939 / 1984

Moving out from under the shadow of her artist brother Augustus John, Gwen John moved to Paris in 1903, working as an artist's model until becoming the mistress of famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. After Rodin's death, she concentrated on her work as an artist, rivalling her brother's reputation with her own expressive portraits.

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino / 1965

Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.

Portrait of Leonardo: The Kid Who Took Hollywood / 2000

A documentary on Leonardo Dicaprio.

The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf / 1995

A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs' contribution to the creation of the League of Nations, the recently discovered letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, and the actual 1940 Gestapo arrest list that shows the Nazis' intention to arrest Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in. Includes interviews with Woolf's acquaintances and relatives; and readings of her works.

Beneath the Mask: Portrait of an American Ninja / 2005

Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business / 1941

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future.

Hometown: A Portrait of the American Opioid Epidemic / 2018

An intimate look at the human faces of America's current opioid epidemic. Seen through the eyes of a mother and the lens of a small town.

Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death / 2017

We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all. To be human is to wrestle with this truth and with the great unanswered question: How do we live with death in our eye? We can deny, we can rail, we can challenge, we can accept. What is our story, and will it sustain us at the end? “Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death,” a two-hour documentary, features men and women of uncommon eloquence and intelligence who are grappling with these questions. For them death is no longer an abstraction far off in the future, it is real. They come from all walks of life, all ages, dying and healthy, believers and unbelievers, well known and obscure. These are people who have been shocked into mortality and are forever changed. They have stories to tell, and we can listen and learn from them.

Portrait of Altine in the Dry Season / 2001

Twenty-seven year old Altine is a mother of two, living on the plains of Northern Senegal. As we watch her going about her daily chores, rhythmically threshing the millet, cooking over an open fire, she tells us of her aspirations. Her strongest wish is for adequate food, good health, and to remain close to her family Images of Western life have not penetrated her village which is three hours from a paved road. This cinematically beautiful film captures life in the dry season which lasts nine months. Cows and goats share the dusty landscape. Villagers trek great distances to bring back the heavy load of water for daily needs. Although life is difficult, there is a dignity about the people.

The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits / 2016

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of thirty. This film offers a glimpse into her world and work, through encounters with women who live today in the places where she grew up.

Hitlers People A Portrait of the Third Reich / 2022

How was Adolf Hitler able to count on the German public even in the face of unspeakable suffering and impending doom? Evocative and previously unseen private archive footage, much of it in colour, shows life in Nazi Germany from 1933 onwards till the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. This documentary is a revealing portrait of the German people, how they...

Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent / 1988

The series explores the diversity of Australia's landscapes, from the seas to the arid interior; the effects of the extremes of flood, drought and bushfire; and examines the impact of 200 years of European settlement on the land, its plants and animals.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny / 1980

Bugs Bunny gushes with excitement over the end of school, but while stopping to wonder why he's excited about this at his age, he runs into a tree and has a flashback to his youth, when he was just as excited about the end of school. But his nemesis, a young Elmer Fudd, is also out, and he's out to get the budding wascally wabbit.