Struggling Artist Movies

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that...

Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

A comic and melancholic take on the struggling artist, shot on 35mm.

For all intents and purposes, 2015 was seemingly a banner year for singer/songwriter Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony). His melodic and quiet songs had...

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets...

A documentary film about cult director José María Zabalza. How he made pictures with very little money and was granted little...

A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

A queer female artist struggles with her first major painting and its impending deadline. Concealing herself in her cluttered bedsit, she begins to...

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making...

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...