Artifact

Artifact is a documentary about the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars as the group works on its album This Is War while locked in a legal dispute with its record label, EMI. The film follows the band through the making of the record and the conflict that surrounds it, and it also looks at the wider pressures of the modern music business, including questions of art, money and integrity. Jared Leto, the band's frontman, directs.

The film is directed by Jared Leto and produced by Emma Ludbrook and Leto. It features Leto's bandmates Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević alongside several other musicians and public figures, including Chester Bennington, Serj Tankian and Bam Margera. Clocking in at 105 minutes, it is a music documentary made in the United States.

Released in 2012, Artifact has found a substantial audience on IMDb, where it holds a rating of 7.9 from roughly 4,700 votes. On TMDB it sits at 7.5 from a much smaller group of around 80 votes, indicating that response there is based on limited input. The higher vote count on IMDb suggests the film has circulated widely among viewers interested in the band and in the music industry's internal conflicts.