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Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days (1991)
, 1h
Directed by Tom Neff
Origin USA
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Ned Beatty, Gregory Peck

This documentary of Frederic Remington reviews how the artist popularized the myths, legends, and images we now call the "Old West."
An Eye on X
An Eye on X (1995)

Origin United-kingdom
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about the visual arts, Political films
Actors MalcolmX

The film follows Wigan's quest in carving two statues of American black activist Malcolm X to commemorate his visit to Smethwick, Birmingham in 1965. One figure is 3 mm high on the head of a toothpick, and the other life sized and carved in chestnut.
Red Jacket
Red Jacket (1998)
, 45minutes
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité

The documentary charts the life of Tretchikoff, featuring contributions with public figures and Tretchikoff himself. The documentary is titled Red Jacket, Tretchikoff memorably recalled his war-time lover and muse, Lenka wearing a red jacket when first meeting her. She would later pose as the model in his painting titled Red Jacket.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light
Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light (1999)
, 30minutes
Directed by Tom Neff
Origin USA
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Lauren Bacall

This short documentary film on the life of Louise Dahl-Wolfe draws upon her art and her personality. The documentary reviews how Dahl-Wolfe "discovered" Lauren Bacall, who at the time was a young actress (seventeen years-of-age) and worked as a model. It was Dahl-Wolfe's photos of Bacall that film producer Harry Warner saw, and subsequently asked Bacall that she come to Hollywood for a screen test. As a result, Bacall was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not (1944).
Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light
Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light (2003)
, 52minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité

Filmmaker John J Doherty traces the life and work of the Irish artist, book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889–1931) with major contributions from his biographer Nicola Gordon Bowe as well as many stained glass artists, poets and historians. The film takes the artist's work in stained glass, which was mainly religious & ethereal, and in book illustration, which was mainly dark & fantastical, as the basis for its title and tells a story of talent, struggle, success and the censorship of his final masterpiece 'the Geneva Window'. Harry Clarke brought his expertise in working in fine decorative detail in glass to his book illustrations, most notably in the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe where he is compared to Aubrey Beardsley and which are featured in the film and paralleled with German Expressionist cinema of the time. The film was made in conjunction with the Irish Film Board and national broadcaster TG4.
No One Can Achieve Perfection
No One Can Achieve Perfection (2008)
, 1h25
Origin Danemark
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts

The film follows the creation of sculptor Hans Pauli Olsen's biggest sculpture so far. We take part in the process when the artist is working in his backyard studio together with his young nude model. We are the fly on the wall, when the artist forgets about the camera and exists only for creating his art with his bare hands. And we experience the contrast between art as subtile, exhibited works in distinguished halls of art and as a simple lump of clay in a dirty garage.
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb (2012)
, 1h22
Directed by Louis van Gasteren
Origin France
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Louis van Gasteren, Michèle Girardon, Nicholas Parsons

As the film opens, a ninety-year-old Louis van Gasteren—a documentary filmmaker and artist famed in the Netherlands—is seated in a video editing suite, watching scenes of himself in the 1960s, a time when “anything was possible.” He reflects on how much he has changed, and that he is that same person and yet is not.
Kroonjuwelen
Kroonjuwelen (2005)
, 1h16
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about the visual arts, Hip hop films, Musical films

In the 2006 documentary "Kroonjuwelen" is a production of Stunned Film. A collective of designers, multimedia developers and filmmakers headed by Ivo Boerdam. The idea for the film was brought into existence at the Mokum Master graffiti reunion in 2004 in Amsterdam. An event where the graffiti writers of Amsterdam gather to redefine the art form. The film sheds light on the Dutch graffiti scene, specifically the scene in and around Amsterdam, with rare video footage dating from 1978 to 2005. Stunned Film follows various known graffiti writers and features interviews with well known artists. The film covers the birth of Graffiti in the Dutch Capital from out of the punk and squatting scene of the city in the late seventies, and into the emergence of hip-hop culture in the Netherlands in the early eighties when graffiti in the Netherlands took to the trains, following the evolution of the art form up to modern artists.