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Because I Was a Painter: Art That Survived the Nazi Camps
Because I Was a Painter: Art That Survived the Nazi Camps (2014)
, 1h40
Directed by Christophe Cognet
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Peinture, Documentary films about the visual arts

Ce film va à la rencontre d'œuvres réalisées clandestinement à l'intérieur des camps nazis ; des dessins, des lavis, des peintures aujourd'hui conservés dans les musées en Allemagne, en Pologne, en Israël, notamment. Le réalisateur dialogue avec quatre artistes déportés encore vivants : Yehuda Bacon, José Fosty, Walter Spitzer, Samuel Willenberg, qui évoquent les circonstances dans lesquelles ces œuvres ont été produites, et les souvenirs qui s'y attachent. Ces œuvres souvent anonymes représentent principalement la vie quotidienne dans les camps : l'appel, le travail forcé, les baraques, la soupe, les exécutions, le ramassage des morts... Entre méditation sur les lieux d'anciens camps, comme Auschwitz ou Treblinka, et visites de réserves de musées, en Allemagne, en Pologne, en Israël, ce film interroge sur la notion de beauté et sur ce que signifie l'honneur d'être un artiste à travers le geste fragile du dessin au cœur de cette tragédie humaine que furent les camps de concentration et d'extermination.
Point and Shoot
Point and Shoot (2014)
, 1h22
Directed by Marshall Curry
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Documentary films about the visual arts

Point and Shoot tells the story of Matthew VanDyke, a sheltered 26-year-old who left his Baltimore home and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” While on a 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie. When revolution broke out in Libya, VanDyke decided to join his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, VanDyke joined and documented the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held for six months in solitary confinement.
Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson
Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (2015)
, 1h17
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films

Wilkinson had a life partner, Fannie. But her family lawyer was taking her money, and her artwork almost became lost when she was committed to an insane asylum, where she spent the last thirty years of her life. After she was sent to the institution, her artwork as well as all her other things were put in trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia, where they were kept in an attic for forty years.
Chris Claremont's X-Men
Chris Claremont's X-Men (2018)

Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts
Actors Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, Louise Simonson

The film is an in-depth look at Claremont's run on The X-Men (later The Uncanny X-Men) series, which he wrote from 1974 to 1991. In interviews with Claremont, Simonson, Nocenti, Adams, and Shooter, the film tells the story of how Claremont's writing revived Marvel's failing X-Men title and rebuilt it into a successful franchise. Chris Claremont's X-Men explores Claremont's contributions to the X-Men, including his development of popular characters Wolverine, Phoenix, and Storm.