Conceptual Art Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

Are you going to push yourself hard to behave according to what the authorities dictate until you become numb as a wilted wood? An experimental film...

John Baldessari is one of the pioneers of conceptual art, which revolutionized contemporary art in the 1960s, and is still a profound influence on...

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