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A short documentary about African art in museums and the effects of colonialism.
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Enter Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith) expresses his passion for art by forging masterpieces -- and selling them at a hefty profit. The trouble starts when his reproduction of a prized sculpture winds up in a famous Paris museum. If experts determine that it is inauthentic, Bonnet's reputation will be tarnished. That's why his fetching daughter, Nicole (Audrey Hepburn), hires cat burglar Simon Dermott (Peter O'Toole) to steal the sculpture back before it's too late.info here
Orson Welles' final film documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Director Brian O’Doherty zooms in on Edward Hopper’s paintings and the locations that inspired them, in this light-hearted treatment of a topic that could easily have become dry and academic.
A thought-provoking documentary chronicling the climactic General Services Administration hearing that decided the fate of Richard Serra's public sculpture, Tilted Arc. Commissioned and installed by the U.S. government in 1981, the sculpture became the center of controversy four years later when a public hearing was held to consider its removal from Federal Plaza in New York City. The trial raised several issues, including the validity of a contract between an artist and the government, the freedom of artistic expression, and the role of the public in designing the visual environment. During the course of the hearing, Serra's site-specific work is described in terms ranging from "masterpiece" to "mouse trap."
Peter Cohen's film is a brilliant two-hour documentation of the direct if paradoxical connection between beauty and evil in Hitler's Third Reich. The evil, of course, far surpassed mere damage. Cohen, an award-winning filmmaker born in Sweden to parents who fled from Nazi Germany and Austria, believes that the Nazi horror can be comprehended as a pervasive manifestation of a perverse aesthetic doctrine: to make the world beautiful by doing violence to it. This provocative thesis, systematically explored, gives a compelling pace to the film.
Frontline correspondent Carl Nagin investigates the looting of pre-Columbian tombs in Latin America and the trafficking of stolen artifacts, exposing a trail that leads to auction houses, galleries, museums, and private collections in the United States.
"A documentary featuring an interview with Eric Hebborn at his home in Italy. Eric Hebborn (1934-1996) was a British painter and art forger and later an author. On January 8, 1996, Eric Hebborn was found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument. He died three days later in the hospital on January 11, 1996." In this documentary, Hebborn speaks about his life and his personal opinions about forgery. Eric Hebborn wrote multiple books in his life, one of which is called The Art Forger's Handbook.
New York Times investigation of Jonathan Tokley-Perry and Frederick Schultz smuggling of Egyptian antiquities, with some attention to looting of Iraq Museum.
