Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man / 2023

An aspiring con-artist works on his craft.

The Fabulous Life Of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Portraitist Of Marie-Antoinette / 2015

One of the most famous artists of her time, Elisabeth's dramatic life was lived during tumultuous times.

The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special / 2014

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel Stuart who almost seized power in 1745, was not in fact him. Keen to make amends, and suspecting that a long-lost portrait of the prince by one of Scotland's greatest artists, Allan Ramsay, might still survive, Bendor decides to retrace Charles's journey in the hope of unravelling one of the greatest mysteries in British art.

Hands (For the Eye, the Hand of My Body Draws My Portrait) / 1977

Hands (For the Eye, the Hand of My Body Draws My Portrait) 1977 is a black and white silent film lasting 7 minutes and 30 seconds. The work exists in an edition of 5, of which this copy is number 2, and 2 artist’s proofs. It was originally shot on 8mm film and transferred to DVD more recently. The camera was operated by fellow Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu (born 1945), with whom Bratescu frequently collaborated. In the film the artist’s hands, filmed from her eye level, are performing various movements and activities above her drawing board. The sequence starts with her playing with different objects on the desk, holding a cigarette, removing a wedding ring. The artist subsequently switches to drawing lines on her palms with a black marker and finally tracing the contours of both her hands on a piece of paper.

Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait / 2007

A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.

The Lady in the Portrait / 2017

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.

Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM / 2014

The fifth title in Zhang Mengqi's Self-Portrait film series.

A Portrait - The Choreographer Sasha Waltz /

A Portrait of an Artist: The Making of 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' /

Making of 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Portrait of a Great Lady / Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother: 90 Glorious Years / 2002

The remarkable life of Britain's long-living royal, the Queen Mother, is lovingly remembered in this documentary double feature. In Portrait of a Great Lady, beloved actor David Niven guides viewers through the Queen Mum's life, which oversaw pivotal moments of the 20th century. The second feature, Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother: 90 Glorious Years, is narrated by Richard Baker.

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait / 2008

An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.

Lahbako (The Social Portrait of Tobacco Industry) /

This documentary captures a portrait of the tobacco industry which still has many social, political and health polemics. In this documentary, I deliberately did not include any dialogue, the images were formed from a series of montages.

Lucky Realy: the Portrait of a Doll /

A fabricate with a loving dedication to Queer subtext. To cut and paste style evidence from the centuries of queer people surviving off of the scraps of heteronormative media. To stretching circumstantial to the extent that it is only barely believable. To stretching circumstantial to the effect that it does nothing to convince, but functions as a symbol, a carriage, a carrier, a provocateur, an insinuation, a gesture, or a false memorial. A trinket.

Year of The Bison: A portrait of Nick Symmonds In his Final Track Season / 2018

'Year of the Bison' documents 2 x Olympian/World Silver Medalist, Nick Symmonds through his Final Season of Professional Track and Field. Through workouts, races and life off the track, Does Nick have what it takes to be best US track and field athlete for one more season?

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels / 19946.52 voti

The main character, Michele, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own feelings about her place in the world and her sexuality, while a camera follows along at close range.

A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities that Preceded the Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum / 2011

Through a series of meticulously crafted scenes, A Film Portrait... devises a disturbing presence-in-absence concept that compel a new gaze from the spectator. The clichés of the thriller film are exploited through a series of progressive tableaux as the experimental narrative recreates 12 scenes that hypothesize the disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum.

The Reformer – Zwingli: A Life's Portrait / 2019

The life story of church reformer Ulrich Zwingli

A Portrait of Jianghu: The Legend / 2023

Dressing Up for the Carnival: A Portrait of Carol Shields / 2002

Programme following the late Canadian novelist Carol Shields at home in Canada, on tour in the UK and undergoing treatment for breast cancer, of which she died in 2003.

The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic /

A teenager deals with a deadly eating disorder.