Tyler Gage è un piccolo malfattore che, in seguito a un'irruzione notturna nella Maryland School of the Arts, viene condannato a un consistente numero di ore di rieducazione da trascorrere nell'Istituto. Qui incontra Nora, ballerina di danza classica che ha puntato tutto sul saggio finale che potrà segnare in modo determinante il suo futuro. I due, pur provenendo da mondi diversi (o forse proprio per questo) provano un feeling immediato sia sul piano del sentimento sia su quello del ballo. Tyler, con la street dance in cui è abilissimo, conquista subito il cuore e le gambe della ragazza.
Dopo una seria rottura sentimentale, Ben comincia ad essere insonne. Per passare il tempo, comincia a lavorare di notte in un supermarket, dove tutta la sua immaginazione artistica prende vita.
USA, 1953: tempi di guerra fredda, maccartismo e integrazione razziale. Tutto molto lontano dal Wellesley College, prestigiosa scuola femminile, dove le materie sono un optional rispetto all'insegnamento base, principio fondamentale per le allieve: lo scopo primo nella vita di una donna resta ancora il matrimonio. È in questa realtà che arriva la nuova insegnante di storia dell'arte Katherine Watson: 36 anni, fiera “zitella” di estrazione operaia, convinta di poter aprire le menti delle sue represse, ma non sempre ottuse, aristocratiche allieve. Com'è prevedibile la donna si scontra contro il corpo insegnanti conservatore e con la diffidenza delle ragazze, ma non si arrende e spiegando come “leggere” Leonardo e Van Gogh, introducendo Pollock e facendosi coinvolgere anche nelle beghe amorose, riesce finalmente ad abbattere il muro di ostilità posto fra lei e le alunne.
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
[SUB ITA] Il giovane surfista californiano Zach è stato costretto a rinunciare al suo sogno di entrare in una scuola d’arte per dedicarsi alla sua famiglia, soprattutto al suo nipotino Cody, figlio della sorella Jeanne. Quando Shaun, fratello maggiore del suo miglior amico Gabe, ritorna a casa, fra lui e Zach nasce subito un’amicizia intima. Shaun spinge Zach a prendere il controllo della propria vita per meglio imporsi sia rispetto alla famiglia sia nel campo dell’arte.
Diventare il nuovo Picasso. È questo il sogno di Jerome Platz, una promettente matricola della scuola d’arte. Ma emergere tra tanti altri aspiranti artisti non è affatto facile. Per fortuna, però, Jerome riesce a conquistare l’ammirazione di Audrey, una ragazza sofisticata e bellissima, figlia di un famoso artista. Ma quando un attraente pittore di nome Jonah gli porta via Audrey e diventa la nuova star della scuola, Jerome elabora un piano per riprendersi la ragazza e conquistare la fama. Un piano molto rischioso...
Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.
Un ritratto inedito di uno dei più enigmatici e significativi cineasti contemporanei: David Lynch. Dall'infanzia nell'idillio della campagna statunitense sino alle brulicanti strade di Philadephia, la storia di un regista originale e incisivo.
24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school.
Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.
Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.
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?
A behind-the-scenes look at the beloved public television personality's journey from humble beginnings to an American pop-culture icon. "The Happy Painter" reveals the public and private sides of Bob Ross through loving accounts from close friends and family, childhood photographs and rare archival footage. Interviewees recount his gentle, mild-mannered demeanor and unwavering dedication to wildlife, and disclose little-known facts about his hair, his fascination with fast cars and more. Film clips feature Bob Ross with mentor William Alexander and the rough-cut of the first "Joy of Painting" episode from 1982. Famous Bob Ross enthusiasts, including talk-show pioneer Phil Donahue, film stars Jane Seymour and Terrence Howard, chef Duff Goldman and country music favorites Brad Paisley and Jerrod Niemann, provide fascinating insights into the man, the artist and his legacy.
By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro Caldas and from conversations at home."
A short documentary that takes a look at Pratt Institute's Architecture program and how the first years handle the rigorous workload.
Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts that embellish and enrich our existence, illumination and clarity, order and playfulness. But Bauhaus was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of WWI, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset. Hence, Bauhaus history is not just the history of art, but also the history of an era that stretches from the early 20th century to the modern day.
Iris, a teacher in her early forties who works at a Fine Arts School, assigns to her students an exercise on a Free Subject. It is a time when social behaviours and values are being called into question. The 20-year-old students are thrilled at the idea of being free to choose their own subjects. They create an “imagination factory” that has no limits. After finding Iris’s lost cell phone, provocative Yorgos, bases his Free Subject on his fictitious recreation of his teacher’s life. Free Subject deals with the limits of individual freedom in contemporary Western societies.
My Art School Summer is an independent, hand-drawn animation film that follows the adventures of Carol, a young art student who wants to express her sexuality and creativity. However, she faces many challenges and distractions from the losers and horn-dogs on campus, who have little respect for her or her work.
“The Dreamlife of David L.“ is a fictional feature film that takes inspiration from a key point in the life of director David Lynch: the time he spent as a student in a fine arts college. Initially attracted to painting, David Lynch ends up choosing the medium of film to express his talent. Far from being an attempt at biography, this film is an imaginary vision where the action could take place today. Which encounters or events leave their mark on the young David L. during this year as a student? “The Dreamlife of David L.” is a dreamlike journey that leads the viewer through the meanderings of this art school. There’s no need to be familiar with the cinematographic works of Lynch to follow the young David L. step by step, going behind the scenes with him.
Alex is the definition of loser. He has no, nor has he ever had, friends. His life has no direction and he has a stupid haircut. While attending the Venice Beach Art School, he meets Lizzy, Patrick and Gnome, who become his friends. When Alex figures out he should make a movie, he decides to do an "alternative political documentary in black and white" about Gnomes struggle to free Hawaii. He hires some brain dead film students and meets the girl of his dreams and he's all ready to make his movie. Until the first scheduled shooting date when Gnome, who has the budget, turns up missing.