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With her husky voice, Zaz captivated the international stage in 2010 with her song “Je veux.” More than fifteen years later, she is performing at the MO Museum in Vilnius, surrounded by works by young contemporary artists such as Selma Selman, Vytautas Viržbickas, Andrius Arutiunian, and the group Baltos Kandys. The singer will perform songs from her latest album, “Sains et saufs.”

Through a misunderstanding, Chul-su arrives on the doorstep of Chun-hi. Having nowhere else to go, he forces her to allow him to stay until they can contact their mutual friend to solve the problem. Their initial contempt for each other gradually softens.

His love of Heaven's virtues could not prevent a hunger for God's enticing creatures.

Director Laura Hyppönen takes the viewer to a surreal museum where mannequins dressed in sequined dresses come to life.

An experimental, AI-driven film which deconstructs art history, recombining artistic movements and eras into an evolving mash-up. The piece serves as an accelerated synopsis of the history of the visual arts, weaving together recognizable imagery into new, emergent forms.

Documentary by Ali al ghazouli

Short documentary.

The Jundt Art Museum has called Gonzaga University home since 1997. The museum’s collection boasts more than 4,000 pieces of art ranging from Andy Warhol to Ansel Adams, from Pablo Picasso to Auguste Rodin, and from Dale Chihuly to Alexander Calder. The museum attracts visitors not just from the Gonzaga community, but from all over the country who travel to see its carefully curated exhibitions. Told through the eyes of the museum’s current director, Paul Manoguerra, this short documentary-style feature explores all that the Jundt Art Museum has to offer, and the importance of art in our society today.

A short Emmy award-winning animation promoting New York's newly renovated Museum of Modern Art.

Vox pops conducted outside Yoko Ono's MOMA show in December 1971.

Japanese picture book world of the protagonist, You Shoumei's oil paintings, and author Nakai Nobutomo, they tore out stubbornly this simple composition and sound of the world, "Kaku Nime" production.

In camera edit, one roll of film, a visit with my friend Brian Frye of his favorite museum with the Joseph Cornell pieces and the miniature magic room.

Accompanying video to the exhibition "Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey", Newport Harbor Art Museum, California, USA, 1988. Survey, interviews, etc.

Umezawa Sutejiro came to Taiwan to work in 1911, and had stayed in Taiwan ever since then. He participated in design and construction of nowadays, to name a few, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Law School of Taiwan University, T&L Hsin Chu, Taichung Normal University, Chiayi Art Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Hayashi Department Store. This documentary film is in attempt to draw a finer portraiture of Umezawa by interviewing Umezawa’s grandson, scholars and architects and by focusing on the discourse of Chiayi Art Museum building. It also intends to pay tribute to Umezawa.

What makes a masterpiece? In this visually stunning program, the magnificence of America's premier art museum lights up the screen. One of the architectural glories of New York, the Met stretches 1000 feet along 5th Avenue. Inside is a dazzling encyclopedia of world art, radiating 5,000 years of art history from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to Europe, African, Asia and the Americas.

Sounds Like Art invites musicians to play in the midst of works of art in a European museum. In this edition, British pop group Bastille present their new album & at the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate on the English coast. Lead singer Dan Smith says he is particularly interested in the art of Anya Gallaccio and Antony Gormley.

Documentation of the artist being hypnotized, wandering around in an immaginary art museum and describing what he sees there. Keller took lessons from a professional hypnotist to prepare for the piece Visiting a Contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis (2006), let himself be hypnotized, and he also hypnotized others. The two-part video depicts a hypnosis session in which Keller repairs to the corridor of an imaginary museum hypnotized and describes the works which he sees there.

Architect Yoshio Taniguchi won the much-coveted commission to expand and renovate the Museum of Modern Art in 1997. In this tour, Taniguchi guides us through the museum, a serenely elegant complex of taut, smooth glass, aluminum, and granite planes that plays off the original museum building, and discusses his thinking behind the design of the six levels of galleries.

As one of the world’s premier art museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to the finest collection of Chinese artistic masterpieces of any museum outside of China. The collection spans 5,000 years of changing political dynasties and varying religious and foreign influences and represent every period of Chinese history. One of the most astonishing things about China is how little most Americans actually know about it, even though China’s culture is so present in our western world. We often see China as a nation casting off tradition in a mad rush to westernize. But below the hectic surface lies a steadfast culture that has influenced the West in deep and subtle ways.

What do the superstars of modern art – van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Warhol – have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle and an Apple iPod? All share the stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). At MoMA, the two big questions are: What makes it modern? And, what makes it art? MoMA’s experts, along with David Rockefeller (son of MoMA founder Abby Aldrich Rockefeller) discuss the museum’s development and its peerless collection of modern art.

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Upon using a modern art museum as the setting for a role play game that goes hopelessly awry, a deaf couple desperate to rekindle their spark finds the reconnection they seek in their shared experience over an abstract sculpture.

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance artist, Jack Narwhal, who cut himself into pieces for display in major museums around the world. In this film, he explains his bodiless condition to a belligerent workman who is setting up another exhibit in the gallery.

During an earthquake, two statues in an art museum finally hook up – defying the laws of religion, society, and physics. This is a story about love, lust, and the beauty in letting go of regressive messages about our bodies and our desires.

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.

In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify “Classic Art”. This immersive new documentary reveals the Nazi’s complicated relationship with classical and modern art, displaying an incredible number of masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir and Gauguin amongst others, intertwined with human stories from the most infamous period of the twentieth century. A state-of-the-art detective story exploring the Nazis’ obsession with creative expression, Hitler versus Picasso combines history, art and human drama for an unforgettable cinema experience.

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to collect their works to show them to the public in Toledo. Until Gustavo Torner, a young forest engineer interested in art, proposes him to visit his city, Cuenca.

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Fifteen years after an intense and abruptly interrupted connection, Leona and Nilo meet again at the Art Gallery in São Paulo, confronting memories and choices that shaped their lives.

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.

Pepe Le Pew, the eternally amorous skunk, is in Paris, where his stench sends a female cat upward to hit a freshly painted flagpole, which puts a white stripe on her back and causes Pepe to think she also is a skunk. He lustfully pursues her into the Louvre art gallery.

The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.

Former college sweethearts Christine and Raf reconnect as adults — reminiscing of their shared past, and revisiting what could've been their future.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.