The Artist

3 short films in a series based on ideas from an exhibition of 100 drawings in Gallery Langbrók in Reykjavík, 1983. The Concert: A devil is playing the piano. The Bathtub: Jesus is taking a bath. The Artist: An artist is painting out in the open and gets a nasty surprise.

The film is about a movie actress who has arrived to conquer Moscow from a distant village. Started career doesn't add up. To the bad luck in the profession added disorder of personal life. Trying to do away with the unfortunate past, the heroine decides to return to her village. Keeping charm and vitality, she follows her own desires. As a result, her intentions are truly rewarded...

Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work while he looks after the home and concentrates on his painting. However, he fails to anticipate the time-consuming attentions of various female neighbours.

A new programme for all music lovers, not just rock/pop fans of yesteryear! The Great Artist" focuses on legendary artists from the 70s and 80s, the golden age of Japanese rock and pop music, and looks back on their footsteps and lives with interviews and rare footage to record their achievements, which are still being passed down today.

Take a deeper look at the art world through interviews with artists, art historians and curators as they look at unique artists and venues.

After hearing the mandate of Sukarno during the Second Asian-African Conference, an author named Suromo searches an art form to express the people’s hardship. Together with a failed painter named Rutaf and a film director named Kadjiman, these artists meet a man who works at the National Trade Bank. Interested in the arts, he helps to promote their activities.

An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.

After a night of failed attempts to sleep, the artist tries to overcome his insomnia by working on a painting. However, something extraordinary occurs with his paint, when during the process, they come alive.

On a warm February night in Los Angeles, the legendary Seattle rock band Soundgarden concluded a sold-out winter tour in support of King Animal, their first studio album in over sixteen years. In front of a rapturous crowd, Live From The Artists Den captured this unforgettable night within the historic art deco setting of The Wiltern. Soundgarden interwove brand new songs with classic radio hits, along with rarities performed for the first time in front of a live audience. Over the extended set, the band showcased their legendary catalogue and unparalleled musicianship, solidifying their impact on the history of rock and roll.

A short, Filmstruck-produced documentary on the life of director Shirley Clarke.

The filmmaker appears as an artist attempting to set up his easel, with frustrating results.

Early South African film

Performed by Matthew Underwood and Mikko Gaestel.

Long estranged from her father, an esteemed Israeli painter, the filmmaker visits an exhibition of his most stirring and revealing self-portraits in Tel Aviv. Hoping that the exhibition will deepen her understanding of him as a person and as an artist-and that it will serve as the catalyst that reignites the connection between them-she endeavors to capture it all on film. As she unearths a lifetime of her feelings of neglect through unguarded conversations with other members of her family, she begins to understand just how much his absence has eroded her sense of self. And though her father's love eludes her, she remains masterfully determined to make meaning out of the void.

An advertisement made for Balatum brand linoleum.

Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees in a sort of job interview situation. The interviewees have many different nationalities and backgrounds and were subjected to a litany of questions covering the themes of work, art, satisfaction, wishes, creativity, study and their personal life situations. The goal was not to build a personal profile of each individual, but rather to present a forum to discuss each of the questions.