Kathy Acker

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process o...

With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Sibylle Berg - celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist known for her provocations and the sharpness...

Lou Reed was wise to chronicle a concert by his early-'80s band, featuring lead guitarist Robert Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. Reed had used th...

A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of co...

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, b...

An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed...

Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at th...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

A depiction of New York’s subway as an absurd obstacle course – revealing a system that shuts many out of a city in motion.

The life story of the famous danish author Jakob Ejersbo is told as his two friends are struggling to reach the top of Kilimanjaro to spread his ashes...

Lloyd Daniels was one of the most gifted basketball players ever to emerge from New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1967 and grew up in the poor...

An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70),probably the most talented and influential guitarist of the twentieth century:...

Swedish documentary from 2012. "A devilish man who can do many arts". A portrait of August Strindberg (1849-1912),which in addition to his authorship...