Artists on Camera
Leaving November 1
What goes into producing a work of art? This is the question these films pose, plumbing into the personal lives and political commitments of a wide variety of artists from various disciplines, as well as observing their subjects at work in order to shed light on their process. A collection of perceptive, engrossing films about some of the greatest artists of today and yesteryear, each one of them a work of art itself.
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A Bigger Splash
Directed by Jack Hazan | 106 mins | 1973
Jack Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. The improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid features Hockney—a wary participant—as wel... -
Downtown 81
Directed by Edo Bertoglio | 72 mins | 2000
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie abou...
