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A fascinating journey to discover the Vitruvian Man with exclusive footage of the original drawing, guided by the best experts in the world regarding Leonardo da Vinci.

A turbulent century, a grand romance, and a passionate search for artistic independence come alive.

A documentary that argues that many pieces of Catholic religious art have for hundreds of years contained embedded (subliminal) images that have promoted sex, violence, and the degradation of the Church.

Space and time are intertwined into a surreal dream-like journey beyond places that is abstract nonlinear narrative summary of artist Anders Weberg's time spent with the moving image.

A small documentary on a film club "8½" from Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Following New York, director Pierre-Paul Puljiz took his super8 camera to meet Mexico City's brilliant independent artistic scene. Directors, actors, artists, performers... let's hear them talk about art, life, roots and, of course, Mexico.

A documentary about a man who videotaped his torturing and killing of a cat and called it art.

David Lynch. Bill Hader. Sheryl Lee. Twin Peaks Red Room. Join Loni Stark as she heads to the Festival of Disruption, hosted by legendary filmmaker David Lynch, and experiences transcendental meditation, the iconic Red Room from Twin Peaks, and an unexpected and historic cinematic reveal.

This documentary follows a group of people who discover the ultra-scary, psycho-sexual horror experience Blackout, and develop an obsession that hijacks their lives and blurs the line between reality and paranoid fantasy.

From 1977 to 1981, multimedia artist Stephen Seemayer shot a Super-8mm movie of his creative friends in their unnatural habitat: the deserted industrial and commercial buildings of Downtown Los Angeles. His camera captured them at work and at play, discussing art and what it meant to share the mean streets with those less fortunate. A rough cut of 'Young Turks' was screened in 1981 and never seen again. Newly digitized and fully reedited with additional footage, the film is a remarkable document of L.A.'s urban core at a crossroads... when rent was cheap and 'loft living' was more than just an advertising slogan.

A satirical documentary on a "canadian" modern art exhibition in Paris. It portrays how a contract from the Arts Council takes a turn for the worse.

French photographer Eugène Atget embraced a heartfelt realism that influenced generations of younger photographers-including an American, Berenice Abbott, who championed him in his later career and carried on his legacy. This program examines the work of both artists, juxtaposing Atget's Paris oeuvre with Abbott's views of New York.

A collection of four films which explore the sacrifice of sons across many different mediums.

Pixels and Polygons: An Indie Game Developer Story is at it's core, a self shot documentary being produced to give insight into the life of a "starving artist", or in this case, an independent games developer as he journeys through life, culminating on a stage in what could be a chance at him becoming successful as a professional.

Album covers are indelible symbols of what can happen when the boundless creative forces and extravagant minds of the world's most sccessful artists and musicians collide. When you add an infusion of corporate label politics plus a significant historical context, the results are anything but ordinary. 50 Greatest Album Covers brings to light the myriad of compelling, undiscovered stories behind the great album covers of history and today. Along the way, viewers will see the never-before-seen footage of the unpredictable and sometimes outlandish artistic process, plus unique insight into the philosophy behind cover design and the business of contemporary album cover art.

In this music video mockumentary, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the genre and of pop culture in general, as her anonymous male subject is more puppet than pop star.

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents. From Elaine de Kooning's abstract portraits of John F. Kennedy to Pat Oliphant's skewering caricatures of the Bushes, we examine the divisive results that occur when art and politics collide.