Design and Art

A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.

A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

23 episode documentary, each focusing on one distinguished building and its architect, from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Who: Walter Gropius What: Staatliches Bauhaus, architecture school Where: Dessau, Germany.

Traces the development of the Bauhaus movement (1919-1933) from its formation in Weimar by Walter Gropius to the establishment of the Bauhaus School in Dessau to its last stand in a derelict factory in Berlin.

Documentary series looking at the influence of art on the current day situation of our society.

Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Surveys the revolutionary achievements of artists during the Renaissance, but in the Northern European countries: Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium. Does this in three leaps: the epochal transformation of painting by Jan van Eyck and his followers, Albrecht Dürer and the advent of printing and the mechanical reproduction of images, and the challenge of Protestant image breaking. The series travels Europe to tell an untold story of the "other" Renaissance, one more relevant to our times than the Italian one.

The life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder will always remain something of a mystery. We possess few details of his sixteenth century life, and we must rely fully on his surviving art to appreciate his genius. As an artist, he was inspired deeply by his great Dutch predecessor, Hieronymous Bosch. His work reveals typically Boschian themes such as the Follies Of Man, and he used a similar keen humor to convey his artistic message. Bruegel also followed Bosch in his choice of contemporary subject matter. His depictions of peasant life are amongst the greatest in western art. He was also one of the first masters of landscape painting, and his satirical drawings are as relevant today as they have ever been, while religious works combine simplicity and depth in their spiritual message.

The intimate story of the most illustrious brotherhood of impressionist artists: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet.

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

Championed by a new generation of scholars, artists, and collectors, this iconic artist is at last emerging from the dark side as new light is shed on all aspects of the Eileen Gray phenomenon.

At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.

A look at the life and work of the renown architect.

Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, wanted the new generation of "Ivans" to understand that we are Europe, while Antiquity is our mutual cradle.

Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.

The life stories of history's greatest minds, from their days as young adults to their final years: their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.