We have been busy promoting the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival, which launches this weekend in Toronto, with fourteen films on art and artists.

An installation shot from David Lynch’s art exhibition. Image: re-title.com

Below, we recommend our top three festival highlights:

The Canadian premiere of Herb and Dorothy, about New York collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, who, in the 1960s, lived on her salary and devoted his entire salary – as a postal worker – to collecting work by then-unknown artists such as Richard Chamberlain, Pat Steir, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sol Lewitt and others…

Watch the trailer HERE.

Yves Klein, Anthropométrie, 1961. Image: passion-estampes.com

Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution, the enigmatic and misunderstood French artist who died aged 34, wanted the world to accept the power of his patented colour, International Klein Blue. After having failed to convince Paris to transform the Eiffel tower, How great would it be if the City of Toronto lit the CN tower lights in Klein’s blue?

More on the film HERE.

David Lynch: The Air is on Fire is a short film, and it’s screening alongside Conversation with Jean Michel Basquiat, but it’s excellent. We follow Lynch as he prepares for a painting exhibition in Milan, and it becomes clear that he “lives the artist’s life”, in that he embues everything he does with artistic flair.

More on the incredible talented – and prolific – Mr. Lynch , right HERE.

To purchase tickets, please click HERE.

**Selections from the festival will be screening in Calgary – FREE – at the end of March. Click HERE for more info**