Directed by Jack Hazan • 1973 • United Kingdom
Starring David Hockney
This intimate and innovative documentary about English-born, California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. Director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as his circle of friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney and his muse, Peter Schlesinger. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s, a tender depiction of gay romance that dispenses with the then-current narratives of self-hatred and self-pity, and a record of artistic creation that is itself a work of art.
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The brief but bright-burning life of influential artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is vividly recounted in this illuminating documentary directed by the superstar painter’s friend Tamra Davis. Set against the vibrant creative backdrop of New York City in ...
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Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint
Directed by Halina Dyrschka • 2019 • Germany
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Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1989 • West Germany, France
Wim Wenders’s diary film investigates the similarities between his approach to filmmaking and the work of celebrated Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, who, in the early 1980s, revolutionized the fashion world with his avant-garde silhouettes ...
