Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 13 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Museum Studies
Cracks in the Mask
A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies.
Icarus Films | 1998 | 58 minutes
Fang
A whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes
Icarus Films | 2001 | 8 minutes
The Grand Masters of the Chauvet Cave
The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made 36,000 years ago and discovered 20 years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas we had on prehistorical art.
Andana Films | 2015 | 52 minutes
The Hermitage Dwellers
This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the 'dwellers' intimate relationship with the art.
Icarus Films | 2003 | 73 minutes
Homecoming - Máhccan
The indigenous Saìmis finally get back their stolen ancestral heritage while filmmaker Suvi West recreates the outside image of the Saìmis for the wellbeing of the whole nation.
First Hand Films | 2023 | 76 minutes
The Next Big Thing
The contemporary art world is changing dramatically. How are collectors, museum directors, dealers and artists responding to transformations in the market?
Icarus Films | 2014 | 57 minutes
Restitution? - Africa's Fight for its Art
A unique art-history saga, this film recounts the troubling story of the African artwork that fills European museums, and whose return is now being demanded by their countries of origin.
Cinétévé | 2021 | 82 minutes
Secret Museums
For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.
Icarus Films | 2008 | 77 minutes
Totem: Return and Renewal
A follow-up to Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, documenting the successful repatriation of the traditional totem pole.
National Film Board of Canada | 2008 | 24 minutes
Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole
The struggle of the Haisla people of British Columbia to recover a traditional mortuary totem pole.
National Film Board of Canada | 2004 | 70 minutes