Film
Cuban documentary about government censorship of the arts wins top film festival prize
Miguel Coyula’s "Chronicles of the Absurd" provides a rare inside view of artist interactions with an oppressive government
Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn't for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was
The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian
Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence
Catalogue accompanying exhibition at London’s Design Museum explores the US film-maker’s unique aesthetic
Steve McQueen’s Blitz, by turns gripping and didactic, locates solidarity in desperate survivalism
The artist and film-maker’s historical feature about London during the Battle of Britain frames it as a traumatic experience that cut through ossified strata of class and racial hierarchy
Lytton Strachey foxes Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodóvar film
The actor's failure to correctly pronounce the name of Bloomsbury Group writer leaves some viewers baffled
A dual social and artistic purpose: London's Whitechapel Gallery to screen films by Jarman Award nominees
Ahead of the announcement of the 2024 Film London Jarman Award winner on 25 November, Whitechapel gallery will show entries by all six shortlisted artists
William Kentridge argues with himself in streaming series
The artist’s nine-episode series "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot" celebrates creative optimism during the Covid-19 lockdowns
Fourteen-hour film on Documenta 14 foreshadows the bureaucracy and culture wars that followed
At 840 minutes, “exergue - on documenta 14” exhaustively chronicles all that went right and wrong with Adam Szymczyk’s edition of Documenta in Kassel and Athens, though the actual art gets surprisingly little screen time
A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude
The film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” is showing at the New York Film Festival
The liberated lens: a chronicle of African cinema and photography
A new book celebrates the pioneering artists who took control of the post-colonial agenda
The Brutalist asks who owns the memory of the Holocaust and who defines an artist’s legacy
Brady Corbet’s new film, feted at the Venice International Film Festival and now playing at the New York Film Festival, follows a Jewish, Bauhaus-trained architect adjusting to life and work in the US after the Second World War
Rediscovered at Tate Liverpool after more than 50 years, Barry Flanagan's 'the works' will soon go on show in London
The long-lost film, which was found during renovation works, will be turned into a performance in a Georgian house during Frieze week
'The government wants to silence these voices': Peru’s new film funding law raises censorship fears for artists
The country’s film sector and wider creative industries are wary of new laws governing the type of projects that can receive state financing
New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday
Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession
New repatriation documentary chronicles Indigenous groups’ struggles to recover artefacts from collectors and museums
The Canadian documentary “So Surreal: Behind the Masks” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
New film on Ernest Cole, photographer who chronicled South African apartheid, presents trove of 60,000 rediscovered negatives
Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”, having its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is narrated by Lakeith Stanfield
Film composed of 1,500 paintings depicting ancient Jewish civil strife struggles to find an audience outside Israel
A version of “Legend of Destruction” with English voiceover acting by Oscar Isaac, Elliott Gould and others will screen in the US and internationally this month
Francis Alÿs shows that child’s play is a serious business
The Belgian artist transforms the Barbican Art Gallery into a cinematic playground
Pioneering gay photographer George Platt Lynes is ready for his closeup
Lynes, whose homoerotic images from the first half of the 20th century have had relatively little exposure, is the subject of a new documentary
Experimental silent films by Man Ray, restored and with new scores, return to the big screen
Four short films May Ray made in the 1920s are being re-released with new music by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band SQÜRL
New documentary tracks the return of looted art from France to Benin
Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, which won top honours at the Berlin International Film Festival, takes a pensive and unconventional approach to its subject
Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2024
The second edition of the biennial award, which acknowledges practitioners across art, film, theatre and more, also grants two years of mentorship and inclusion in a global networking programme
Yang Fudong: ‘It’s a silent movie, Hong Kong is the soundtrack’
The Chinese artist and filmmaker reveals the inspirations behind his silent film made for the M+ Facade, a tribute to the beauty of Hong Kong and the process of ageing
Andy Warhol’s filmed portraits of celebrities head to Hollywood
Christie’s and the Andy Warhol Museum are staging a pop-up show of the artist’s “Screen Tests” during Frieze Los Angeles
Ben Whishaw to play photographer Peter Hujar in upcoming film
The as-yet untitled film will be directed by Ira Sachs, who just directed Whishaw in the critically acclaimed film "Passages"
Was Rauschenberg’s grand prize win at the 1964 Venice Biennale a US plot, or just good PR?
A new documentary delves into the machinations that led to the upstart American artist’s stunning triumph at the art world’s Olympics
Ghosts in the streets: Steve McQueen documentary delves into the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam
The four-hour film, shot mostly during the Covid-19 pandemic, opens in the US on Christmas Day
The visual thrill of the legendary filmmakers Powell and Pressburger
A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”
A brush with... Sutapa Biswas
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée
‘Black American confidence is really powerful to me’: Garrett Bradley on the role of transparency and music in her filmmaking
The winner of the 2023 Eye Art & Film Prize also discusses the challenge of eliciting a “360-degree experience” and her interest in Italian new wave cinema