Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"

An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.

Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.

The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.

Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.

‘What I Believe’ is a prose poem originally published in French in Science Fiction #1 in January 1984.

The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz

The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

"Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas..."

“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.

The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...

Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.

While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.