Illuminations is pleased to bring you a superb range of short and long-form documentaries about artists, artworks, and art movements available for streaming and download. Our key series include theEYE, Art of Faith, and The Art of …, as well as several individual films.
A six-part Sky Arts documentary series presented by John McCarthy explores the art and architecture of different faiths and their religious buildings around the world. This series includes Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Religions of the Tao. Available for download and streaming.
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An exciting, authoritative, and challenging series of award-winning documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The six programmes - History, Value, Imagination, Sexuality, Politics, and Identity - feature key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, and Eric Fischl.
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Our best-selling series of 44 profiles about contemporary artists is available for streaming and download. With artists from all mediums being highlighted, each film offers a rare insight into an artist’s influences and ideas, providing an accessible means of engaging with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the 21st century.
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A series of 50-minute documentaries exploring the lives and works of exceptional and influential 20th Century artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Frances Bacon, Eric Gill, and Antony Gormley. In each case, newly-filmed artworks are accompanied by a specially recorded soundtrack drawn solely from the artist's interviews, letters, and writings.
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These films have been produced in support of a specific exhibition or collection at important institutions, galleries and museums in the UK, including Tate, Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery and V&A. Artworks featured include sculpture, painting, artefacts, and installations from around the world.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
