Ai Weiwei ist der prominenteste chinesische Gegenwartskünstler und schärfster Regimekritiker im eigenen Land. Er ist Teil der internationalen Kunstszene und der globalen Popkultur und inspiriert seine Anhänger in aller Welt. Im April 2011 verschwindet er spurlos und niemand weiß. Weltweit regt sich Protest. Nach drei Monaten ist er plötzlich wieder da. Seit Juni 2011 stehter unter politischem Hausarrest. Die junge Regisseurin Alison Klayman hat ihn drei Jahre lang begleitet. Sie hat mit langjährigen Wegbegleitern Ai Weiweis gesprochen, mit Künstlern und Autoren, aber auch sehr persönliche Gespräche zwischen ihm und seiner Mutter Gao Ying aufgezeichnet und zeigt Ai Weiwei als Vater eines dreijährigen Sohnes. Ihr Porträt ermöglicht einen einzigartigen Einblick in seine Persönlichkeit, sein Privatleben und sein Schaffen: eine differenzierte Beschreibung des heutigen Chinas zwischen Willkür und Widerstand.

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1 ...

A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking consequences of their encounter.

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.

In between performance, dance and cerémonies, "The Ferryman” is a choreographic exploration of rituals and animistic roots, a luxurious visualisation of a bewitchment and an exorcism of a man-deer in the borders of the world.

Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces women, fights duels, denies his father's authority, and mocks Heaven. Carried away by his passion for women and gambling, he goes so far as to commit perjury. A classic revisited by Mesguich with a lot of visual effects: special effects, magic tricks, imposing sets. A playful staging for this tragi-comic play.

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.

This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.

Marcel Duchamp zählt zu eigenwilligsten Künstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als Mitbegründer der Konzeptkunst und Erfinder des Readymades. Was ist Duchamps bleibendes Vermächtnis und wie prägen seine Arbeiten und Ideen unsere Gegenwart und Zukunft? Antworten geben seltene Original-Interviewsequenzen mit Duchamp selbst sowie namhafte Experten und Künstler.

Exiled, yet internationally celebrated Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai's demons come to life as he tries to flee South Africa following increasingly fractious experiences on the Johannesburg art scene. His greatest demon “Black Guilt” is one he can never shake off, this burden of having to speak for his people. But Is this responsibility really a burden at all, or is it actually a superpower? Either way, will Kudzi ever be President of His Own State of Being?

Kaum eine andere Gesellschaft lebt so abgeschottet wie Nordkorea. Der Norweger Morten Traavik ist mit anderen Künstlern nach Pjöngjang gereist: Ist Austausch durch Kunst möglich unter den Bedingungen einer Diktatur? Eine Reise unter permanenter Überwachung, mit enttäuschten Erwartungen und unerwarteten Begegnungen - bis ein Atombombentest Nordkoreas alles verändert.

The film is a stage play hybrid showcasing dark and absurd sketches based on contemporary Hungarian news of the 2000's with campy, senseless musical interludes in-between. Highly experimental in nature that - like Marmite - will split its' crowd into ones that'll love it and others that'll loathe it. There's no middle grounds here. The topics included are: The Hungarian Olympians' doping scandal, political terrorism, the national elections... and more.

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.

A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (France) in October 2014. Commissioned by Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes.

Marepe, an artist from Bahia, produces art with anything he comes across in the town he lives in, Santo Antônio de Jesus. Packs of cigarettes, coconut palms, walls, and memories taken from the streets, go into putting together a personal archeology for this young artist.