The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian / 1989

"The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian" takes the form of a personal travel notebook. A travel through Europe in search of thirty pictures of this martyrdom. The film is conceived as a voyage of initiation, an imaginary reportage...

Iconoscope / 2011

They say that the average Earthling spends about 10 years of his life at the TV screen. It is pointless to ask whether these are lost years - without television, it is impossible to imagine our civilization, although not 100 years have passed since its invention. "Iconoscope" is a chance to cover the entire vast history of television in 100 minutes of exciting and paradoxical spectacle.

The Icon of a Season / 2013

This film presents a contemporary view on modern Russian upper-class youth. The film genre is a social drama. The main five characters of the movie are financially secured and socially successful - producing, managing and hosting a popular TV show. They are beautiful, happy and satisfied with their lives. They are good friends to each other and the others. The glass world they surrounded themselves by is full of love and smiles... Until one day something happens to the leading character and suddenly they all face the real world. The glass shatters. Their lives are changed forever. They will never be the same

The Iconoclast / 1976

Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh gradually falls in love with Ali

The Iconographer /

A Russian immigrant now residing in Montreal, Alexandre Sobalev practices and teaches the art of iconography using a technique that dates back to the 15th century. The mysticism that emanates from this art form brings him to question his most personal convictions.

The Icon Stand / 1969

In late 19th century, a carver-cutter arrives in a little town to make the iconostasis of the newly built church. He is being accommodated in the house of a respected family. He is working slowly because of his love for the daughter of his hosts. They resist in every possible way and pay a high price: Their daughter dies. Though in despair, the master completes the iconostasis: a masterpiece the locals perceive as a heresy. And he leaves once again without any destination.

Thinking in Loop 1. Iconoclastic Delights / 2008

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the difference between private and public use of the video, the video running in loop as a contemporary form of ritual. The film footage is not used here as a mere illustration to make the text more comprehensible, or to make certain theoretical positions more evident. Rather, these video lectures thematize the gap between what we hear and what we see, and reflect on the relationship between image and word in our media driven world.

Icon / 2016

“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be shown thanks to its residents, some of whom spent several decades at the hospital. This discreet and, at the same time, insightful observation of the patients’ daily lives transforms into meditation on the human nature, which is not entirely penetrable.

C.S.T.I. (The Curse of the St. Theodore Iconostasis) / 2005

It tells about the theft of a miraculous iconostasis from the city museum.

Story of an Icon / 2020

A documentary about singing-life of the greatest artist in Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Abdu. Edited, written , and directed by: Turki Alharbi.

Che Guevara: The making of an icon / 2014

How does a politician – assassinated more than 50 years ago – gradually become a public figure? An extremely vibrant image which shows up where you least expect it. It served as figurehead for the Arab Spring revolutions, from Rabat to Sanaa, whereas we had thought it had been relegated to t-shirts and cigarette lighters. Why has this image become so universal that we are no longer surprised to find it in drawings, graffiti, tattoos and prints on all types of media in all sorts of contexts the world over? How can this image be used to advertise luxury automobiles and also be brandished angrily by indignant agitators? What is the formula that made this figure go viral? This documentary is a journey to investigate and decode a piece of iconography.

Iconoclasm / 1982

Johan van der Keuken's film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way). De Melkweg is a multimedia venue in Amsterdam, which was established in the spirit of the ’60s, and became an international centre of counter-culture.

Iconic Metal Bridge Crossing the Douro / 2020

How does one film iconic spaces or structures of a city without repeating the usual aesthetic and formal solutions? “Ponte icônica em metal sobre o Douro” is an ingenious twist on the camera obscura technique, in an experimental exploration between architectural space and sound

Icon / 2019

38-year-old Dmitry organizes a candlelit dinner in his apartment, where he invites a pretty girl Eva. Dmitry gives the impression of a religious person, he is neat, polite, but at the same time, from Eve's behavior it is noticeable how she doubts his serious attitude towards her. Eve gives Dmitry an old Icon, such an unexpected gift shocks Dmitry.

Icon / 2011

The history, purpose, and use of icons in the Orthodox Church.

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel / 2015

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today. The life and work of the Austrian artist Valie Export exemplify a development in art history in which women sought and found new ways and means of expression. Her work provides a feminist counterpart to the Viennese actionism of her time, which has influenced numerous artists of subsequent generations. The innovative diversity of her artistic approaches makes Valie Export an icon of 20th century art history.

The Icon of the Democratization of Taiwan / 2020