Parola chiave Art Documentary

Jean-Michel Basquiat è un giovane artista di strada newyorkese. L’incontro con Andy Warhol lo proietta repentinamente nel sofisticato milieu delle gallerie d’arte di Soho; ma questo ambiente cinico e opportunista, non fa per Jean-Michel, che nonostante l’amore di Gina, la sua ragazza, cade preda di uno stato depressivo che si aggraverà con la scomparsa di Warhol e lo porterà - a soli 27 anni - a un’ultima, fatale overdose di eroina.

Documentario sui primi lavori del regista Quentin Tarantino. Da "Le iene" a "The Hateful Eight", attori e collaboratori esaminano i primi otto film dell'acclamato regista e sceneggiatore.

Il film ripercorre la breve vita di Keith Haring (1958-1990), artista americano tra i più rappresentativi della storia dell’arte contemporanea. Nel documentario di Christina Clausen si susseguono testimonianze della famiglia di Haring, ricordi di amici e galleristi, nonché interventi di artisti quali Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle e Bill T. Jones.

La regista Agnès Varda e l'artista francese JR si mettono in viaggio sulle strade della Francia alla ricerca di incontri spontanei o già organizzati. In auto e nel camion speciale di JR, lontano dalle grandi città, uniscono i loro due mondi per cercare di crearne altri.

Where does the impulse that leads us to create come from and how does it transform us? At what point does the artist begin to be built by the object he creates? Six artisans from Buenos Aires today take us to know the depths of their trades, seeking to vindicate the importance of the circularity of their production, mutual aid, the transmission of knowledge and the value of the manual tradition that they carry on.

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held ideas about how these people came to dominate vast areas of Mexico and Central America. Through immense lost monuments, ancient inscriptions and new forensic evidence, this series tracks the Maya from their earliest origins all the way to the present day, unlocking the dark secrets of the rise and fall of the Maya.

Between experiments, mutations and recompositions, the teeming story of the surrealist adventure, the most fertile avant-garde of the 20th century, whose centenary we are celebrating this year.

For centuries, explorers have searched for the Bible’s most sacred religious artefacts. One of the most mysterious of these objects is the famed Ark of the Covenant. The gold-plated wooden chest – one of the most instrumental symbols of faith and God's presence – was believed to house the two tablets bearing the Ten Commandments. The Ark’s exact whereabouts has long puzzled scholars. Where did it go? And why has it remained such a mystery?

Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.