Contemporary Art: Moving & Still Images

Visual arts films, horror, arthouse, cult, festival circuit documentaries and blockbusters all under the one roof!
Kanopy is an online video streaming service for tertiary educational institutions internationally, distributing films from BBC, PBS and now Criterion Collection plus many other production houses. It can be accessed by all academics and students via UniKey.
NOTE: For any films that are currently unavailable, you will see a request form that you can use to ask the library for access. Please provide as much information as possible in this form - i.e. what course it is for, whether you are a student or faculty member, when you need access and why.

was designed to serve as a bridge between the film world and academia. The collection is meticulously curated by film experts and leading academics to showcase meaningful documentaries of social, political and cultural importance by some of the world’s top international filmmakers. Our growing catalogue combine in-depth stories with out-of-the-box storytelling on a broad range of topics. In many cases, the films will be accompanied by a selection of study guides, as well as press kits, articles, and interviews with the filmmakers and their subjects.

Provides streaming access to some of the films set for units of study.

Streaming video collections via this publisher's databases, including Ethnographic Video Online and LGBT Studies in Video. Classical Music in Video, Opera in Video, Anthropology Online. Once logged in, click on "My Collections" in top left corner.

The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including contemporary art and architecture.

The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history—from our founding in 1929 to the present. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists.

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

This is a UK image resource for visual arts. It's collections comprised over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research.

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Australia :Search photographs, negatives, artworks, drawings, posters, postcards and other pictures, as well as physical objects such as puzzles, instruments and clothing

The State Library of New South Wales is a large reference and research library open to the public. It is the oldest library in Australia, being the first library established in New South Wales

Provides access to over 275000 images digitized from the library collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and more.