The Art Of Erotica

Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely met in Paris in 1955, in the artistic effervescence of the post-war period. 25 and 30 respectively, and both married, and they became close friends. It took them five years to fall in love and decide to create and live together. For forty years, this nomadic couple did not make children, but rather sculptures, preferably monumental, all over the world. From Europe to Japan, their works have dazzled audiences, enchanting young and old with sacred machines and multicolored creatures. In THE BONNIE AND CLYDE OF ART, testimonials and archival images help to trace their life and artistic epic. — LES RENCONTRES DU FILM D’ART

For a week over the summer every year an art festival for young people takes place at Seyðisfjörður on the east coast of Iceland.

Il-Man was separated from his parents at his young age and was brought up by his teacher, a Taekwon martial art trainer. After his teacher dies, he comes to Seoul to study and look for his parents. Il-Man faints owing to hunger in front of Taekwon martial art hall. Thanks to help of both Kang-Shik and Jin-Suk, however, he stays at Kangsik's home and finds out his mother by their help.

A portret of the Cobra artist Svavar Guðnason. His life and his art - sources - influences and how he became one of the greatest abstract painters amongst Nordic artists.

Admittedly, it is not so often possible to see the birth, flowering and extinction of some creative direction in art during the life of one generation. Perhaps one of the rare examples of this kind gives us a creative direction that has gone down in history under the name "social art", which is regarded in the West as the most significant contribution of Soviet fine art to the world artistic process of the second half of the twentieth century. In our film, the fate of this creative direction is reflected by its brightest representatives – Vitaly Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov, Boris Orlov, Rostislav Lebedev and Mikhail Roshal. Their collective story about the fate of "social art" unfolds against the background of the chronicle of the political and artistic life of the 70-90s.

Vlado Kristl rejected the word anarchy. Nor did he like the word utopia, nor the term experimental film. As a matter of fact, he didn't like any words if they weren't freed from the conventional ways of thinking. Following the shooting of "Kunst ist nur ausserhalb der Menschengesellschaft" he was only pleased when hardly anything he expressed in his poems performed, thrown and hurled against any hostile and alien environment by Carola Regnier was understood. - Markus Nechleba

Umezawa Sutejiro came to Taiwan to work in 1911, and had stayed in Taiwan ever since then. He participated in design and construction of nowadays, to name a few, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Law School of Taiwan University, T&L Hsin Chu, Taichung Normal University, Chiayi Art Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Hayashi Department Store. This documentary film is in attempt to draw a finer portraiture of Umezawa by interviewing Umezawa’s grandson, scholars and architects and by focusing on the discourse of Chiayi Art Museum building. It also intends to pay tribute to Umezawa.

The art market in France was surprisingly flourishing under the Occupation. Almost two million works of art changed hands between 1940 and 1944. Over 35,000 trains left Paris loaded with artwork and spoliated objects, in particular those belonging to Jewish families. What practices and what networks did those in the art market put in place during this five-year period? Who were they? What role did the French national museums play in this market?

A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s eighteenth-century keen about the the life and death of Irish rebel Art Ó Laoghaire.

Icelandic prodigy Laufey invites you into her mesmerising world for this edition of Sounds Like Art, where music meets the visual arts. A colourful outing to the Barberini Musuem in Potsdam, home to many masterpieces from Impressionist greats like Monet, Munch and Signac.

A tribute to Nikos Kazantzakis, the great writer and thinker. Researchers, university professors, who dealt with the great Cretan and world creator, but also ordinary everyday people, tell stories they lived and heard, outlining his life and work. His relationship with God, travel, love, philosophy, friendship, love, music and dreams are recorded in filming that took place in Crete, Aegina, Thessaloniki and Athens. The tribute is the truth of his personal path, a path that is identified with his life and work.

The double bass player is in a hurry to go to the concert, but he can't get into the elevator, and he has to climb to the roof on foot.