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Nearly 5 years in the making, and incorporating footage spanning 19 years, one can say with unusual literalness that Drawing out the Demons is about an artist's journey. For most of the 1990’s Attila worked in Berlin, where he lived a wild lifestyle amongst Berlin's gay underground. Youthful, handsome, and with a clear sense of purpose, he followed his career to where it could grow.

In one blazing stroke, Attila Richard Lukacs established "bad-boy" celebrity at the highest levels of the international art world. After living and painting successfully for 10 years in Berlin, it was time to take on the New York art scene - New York, however, had other ideas. By unearthing Attila's past and reflecting on the events leading to his last days in the Big 'rotten' Apple, director David Vaisbord takes us on a journey to the dark side where 'Drawing Out the Demons' is a matter of life and death.

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Monument is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality.

In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Plinth, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.