Museum Movies

How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or G...

A man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.

Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his wh...

A young museum curator Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) is sent to look at an ancient artefact, discovered in the basement of a stately home in Shropshire....

The new hire and black membership desk assistant at an exclusive museum becomes a special part of the membership experience and questions his new role...

Un-Documented argues against Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s film Statues Also Die (1963). Focusing on plundered objects in European museums and list...

When an art student visits the museum, a friend's emotional antics test his patience.

In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the G...

Paintings conservators at the Getty Center reveal details of their craft as they restore two large paintings by French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry.

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the stil...

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock ey...

In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.

People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of those y...

Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers through The Cloisters, pointing out Romanesque an...

Paolo, a forty-year-old single man, spends his time between his flat and the museum of fake fruits, where he works as a guard. He lives in a suspended...

A documentary about the fascinating and complicated process of the rebuilding of Holland's most famous museum, The Rijksmuseum. The film shows the peo...

This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being sho...