Mondria(a)n, en route to New York

Poised on the eve of Piet Mondriaan's departure for New York, this documentary portrait takes the artist's letters to his American friend Harry Holtzman as its guiding voice, letting his own words carry the narration while the camera moves patiently across the grids, blocks and hard-won balances of his abstractions. The register is contemplative rather than encyclopedic, less a march through biography than an attempt to sit with the work at the exact moment a life was about to change direction.

This one is for gallery-goers, art students and anyone who finds a slow, close look at painting more thrilling than a plot. Expect an unhurried pace, a voice-led structure, and long stretches where images are simply allowed to hold the screen. Viewers who want conflict and incident should look elsewhere; those who like their documentaries meditative, and who enjoy hearing an artist explain himself in his own correspondence, will find it quietly absorbing.