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Films About Art

Films About Art

From documentaries and biopics about artists both beloved and unknown, to sweeping dramas that capture the spirit of an artform through cinema, the Kino Film Collection features a number of films that celebrate art in all of its beauty, pain, and wonder.

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Films About Art
  • The Mill and the Cross

    Directed by Lech Majewski • Arthouse • 2011 • Poland, Sweden • English
    Starring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling

    Lech Majewski’s deeply immersive "The Mill and the Cross" transports viewers into Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece "The Procession to Calvary." Blending meticulous...

  • Close to Vermeer

    Directed by Suzanne Raes • Documentary • 2023 • Netherlands • Dutch with English subtitles
    Featuring Pieter Roelofs, Anna Krekeler, Jonathan Janson

    Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever, mounted in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the...

  • Caravaggio

    Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
    Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

    Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

  • Camille Claudel 1915

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy

    Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's protégé and later mistress. Inspired by the correspondence wit...

  • Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

    Directed by Jeffrey Wolf • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith

    This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work ...

  • Tom of Finland

    Directed by Dome Karukoski • Biopic • 2017 • Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany • Finnish with English subtitles
    Starring Pekka Strang, Seumas Sargent, Lauri Tilkanen

    The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation ...

  • Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint

    Directed by Halina Dyrschka • Documentary • 2019 • Germany • English, German, Swedish with English subtitles
    Featuring Johan af Klint, Julia Voss, Ulla af Klint

    The subject of a 2018 awe-inspiring retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even ...

  • Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

    Directed by Pieter van Huystee • Documentary • 2016 • Netherlands • English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian with English subtitles
    Featuring Matthijs Ilsink, Peter Klein, Jos Koldeweij

    Follow a team of Dutch art historians as they crisscross the globe to unravel the secrets of Hieronymus Bosch. In 2016...

  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    Directed by Patricia Rozema • Comedy • 1987 • Canada • English
    Starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la...

  • A Bigger Splash

    Directed by Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
    Featuring David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger

    In this intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney, director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay l...