"Windows have always interested me, because they are a passage between the inside and outside" (Matisse). This film explores the theme of windows as passageways between the inside and outside worlds,...

A painting is constructed in the painter's studio through a complex process of display and concealment. This film investigates the construction of painted representations.

This study of metamorphoses depicted in painting, sculpture, photography, and film endeavors to clarify our fascination with transformations of the human form.

Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii, presented in Rome in 1785, would come to be seen as the manifesto of neoclassicism. The film investigates this aesthetic turning point, which...

This film explores the depiction of events, from the dramatic to the incidental—from images of war-torn cities to scenes showing passers-by in a street or an anonymous couple at a window.

The use of light and perspective enable the artist to create a true reflection of reality—particularly with the advent of photography.

This film explores the artistic themes of recurrence and repetition—representations of shadows, reflections in water, and the mechanical reproduction of images (in paintings by Andy Warhol, for...

This film studies representations of light sources (moon, street lamp, candle, neon light, etc.) and figures illuminated in the night. It also raises the parallel question of darkness—its...