X
How do I get paid? Learn about our new Secured Funds Program!
  View site in English, Español, or Français
The fair-trade ticketing company.
Sign Me Up!  |  Log In
 
Find An Event Create Your Event Help
 
A Bigger Splash
Suns Cinema
Washington, DC
Share this event:
Get Tickets
There are no active dates for this event.


Event

A Bigger Splash
Among the most strikingly original films on a modern artist (Philip French, The Guardian), Jack Hazans A Bigger Splash (1974) dispenses with drab talking-head portraiture to create an intimate and innovative film about English-born, London-schooled, California-based artist David Hockney and his work that honors its subject through creative risk rather than slavish hagiography.

Fascinated as so many have been by the mystery and allure of Hockneys art, Hazan (also director of Rude Boy) spent three years shooting A Bigger Splash, an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well his circle of friends, many subjects of his portraits, including British textile designer Celia Birtwell, fashion designer Ossie Clark, curator Henry Geldzahler, gallerist John Kasmin, and artist Patrick Procktor. The story that Hazan extracted from the reams of largely improvised material that he shot concerned the agonized end of the affair between Hockney and his muse, lover, and model, an American named Peter Schlesinger, caught with such disarming candor that Hockney was at first embarrassed of the results, though he would later come, in due time, to embrace the film.  

Hazans film is too-little-seen masterpiece that begs revisiting for a number of reasons: its both a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s and an honest-yet-tender depiction of gay male romance that dispenses with the then-current narratives of self-hatred and self-pity. Its also an invaluable vantage on art history in action: Hockney can be seen putting the finishing touches on Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which sold for $18,000 back in 1972, but fetched $90.3 million at a Christies auction in November, 2018, setting a record for a living artist. To dwell on such mind-boggling figures, though, betrays the quiet and private quality of Hockneys art, to which Hazans inspired docufiction so movingly attests, a record of artistic creation that is itself a work of art.

"For me, he [Hockney] touches the raw nerve of what cinema is abouteven if he is
actually talking about painting."  filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Summer Hours)

The best film ever made about a living artist  artist Ed Ruscha

"One of the finest films I have seen about an artist and his work."  filmmaker Martin Scorsese

An original eye-opening film experience with an unexpected sense of humor.  filmmaker Hal Ashby

"Intimacy which is nothing short of startling... defies comparison with any other art film
or study in documentary biography."  Film Comment

From Metrograph Pictures

Location

Suns Cinema (View)
3107 Mount Pleasant Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
United States
Map is loading...

Categories

Film > Movies

Minimum Age: 21

Contact

Owner: Suns Cinema
On BPT Since: May 02, 2016
 
Suns Cinema
www.sunscinema.com


Contact us
Email
support@brownpapertickets.com
Phone
1-800-838-3006 (Temporarily Unavailable)
Resources
Developers
Help
Ticket Buyers
Track Your Order
Browse Events
Locations
Event Producers
Create an Event
Pricing
Services
Buy Pre-Printed Tickets
The Venue List
Find out about local events
Get daily or weekly email notifications of new and discounted events in your neighborhood.
Sign up for local events
Connect with us
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Get to know us
Use of this service is subject to the Terms of Usage, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy of Brown Paper Tickets. All rights reserved. © 2000-2022 Mobile EN ES FR