A Brief History of John Baldessari is probably the very best mini-documentary I’ve seen recently. Narrated by Tom Waits and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the guys who made Catfish. This is not boring art.

Basil Wright and Harry Watt’s influential 1936 documentary Night Mail.

Here’s a very short documentary about generative art. It’s also worth checking the rest of PBS Arts’ playlist, which contains short documentaries about other really contemporary art subjects. (via Boing Boing)

A two-minute minidocumentary about the Big Bang. Personally, it’s thrilling to see the short-form science doc evolve. But seriously: magenta?