Portraits / 2019

Portraits is a modern-day adaptation of Carmilla, a female vampire story, that takes place in present-day Los Angeles against a backdrop of burlesque and Victorian death photography.

Portraits / 1971

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

Portraits / 2016

The 16-minute colour film observes Hockney smoking five cigarettes and thinking about painting in his Los Angeles studio, surrounded by a series of portrait paintings that featured in his 2016 exhibition at the RA (82 Portraits and 1 Still-life)

Portraits / 1972

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain, scratches and flickering give the film texture. The music is by Steve Reich.

Portraits / 1982

Japanese avant-garde, experimental short film.

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Two friends from college reunite only to discover one has been keeping a dark secret.

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When Mira inherits a building from an unknown relative, it isn’t long before her fate draws her deeper into her family’s secret past, and her attraction to her mysterious new friend, Madeline , slowly reveals itself. A string of brutal murders besiege those around her. Do her series of re-occurring nightmares point to the unknown killer, or are they a link to Mira’s dark ancestral history?

Portraits / 2023

After a particularly brutal heist, Alex is disturbed by the actions she and her fellow gang members have just committed. Terror sinks in as she looks around the campfire and realizes that she's the only one affected by their grizzly deeds.

Portrait(s) /

Georgie is a strange boy, during one long walk leading to Mother's house we discover why.

Portrait(s) /

A reflection on the gaze, the human face and the poetry that comes out of them when they are in front or in profile in a portrait. The film is above all visual, focusing on the act of looking and being still, looking.

24 portraits d Alain Cavalier / 1991

Identity Portraits / 2024

Three short portrait films that weave together spoken word and visual form to reflect the identity, joy, and power of individuals from the transgender and nonbinary community.

Family Portrait / 2013

After the demise of the feudal dynasty and half a century of war and turmoil, the ancient land of China finally ushered in a long-lost peace. The founding of New China has greatly changed the fate of the most ordinary people in the imperial city. The upright and honest Wang Mantang is a craftsman who grew up in the old society. With his unique skills...

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts / 2015

A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.

A Portrait of Jianghu: Bad Guys / 2014

Two martial artists are brutally killed by a team of assassins, leaving their wards, a young boy and girl, defenseless. A martial arts master dispatches of the assassins, sparing their lives, and decides to take them in. He raises them and teaches them martial arts.

Family Portraits / 1994

Four hundred animal portraits. This film was made for the renovated Grande Galerie in the National Natural History Museum in Paris.

South Africa, Chromatic Portraits / 2014

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits / 1993

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.

Portraits rêvés / 2012