Conceptual Art Movies

A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.

A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend...

Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her universe there is no distinction between life, art...

The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing...

Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles...

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...

Conceptual visual artist Ján Mančuška died in 2011. However, in his short 39 years of existence, he managed to create a number of...

One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a...

Conceptual-structural film by Branko Karabatić exploring media and television.

Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his career, and provides clues to...

In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making....