A documentary about a bunch of mainly New York based loosely connected autodidactic artists who, influenced by the popular street cultures of the day, skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion, punk and hip-hop, began to work in the fields of fashion, music, literature, film and athletics(!). find out more...

Jon Nguyen directs this documentary which explores the life and career of renowned film-maker and screenwriter David Lynch. With the aid of extensive interviews with Lynch himself, the film gives an intriguing insight into the director's formative years and recounts some of the experiences which helped shape his later work. While candidly providing a detailed account of some of his early films, Lyn find out more...

New York 1981 and the young Jean-Michel Basquiat is cruising the streets on the cusp of international recognition, on his wanders he meets pretty much all of the Warhol clan and musical icons such as Debbie Harry and Mellie Mel. Acknowledged as one of the most gifted artists of the late Twentieth Century, Basquiat makes a charismatic host to what was an intense period of new wave American culture. find out more...

Based very loosely on Henri Murger's 1851 novel, Kaurismaki takes us on a characteristically down-beat and miserabilist journey into the lives of three bohemian artists, a poet, a painter and a composer, set against the backdrop of timeless Paris. find out more...

A largely fictional biopic depicting the solitary and star-crossed life of Toulouse Lautrec. We must all suffer for our art! The first half-hour is full of energy and verve as we trawl through the colourful Montmartre of Paris in the 1890's. find out more...

Sophie Fiennes' fascinating documentary offers a revealing and intimate insight into the creative process of acclaimed artist Anselm Kiefer. Beautifully shot, the films tracks Kiefer as he transforms the environs of an abandoned silk factory in southern France with an ongoing series of monumental installations; Seriously, obtuse art house though...I mean serio find out more...

An artful documentary about the life of Daniel Johnson, singer/songwriter, artist, cartoonist and general artistic genius, but a man sadly afflicted with a severe mental illness that makes him totally self-delusional and an occasional danger to both himself and others. Daniel, raised in a Christian fundamentalist family in deepest West Virginia, amongst many of his fantasies, sees Devils everywhere, and with his overblown self-importance, not helped by his legions of admirers, vying with his low find out more...