Supplementary cinema: Hockney + Whiteread
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:00pm, Cinema
Unless otherwise stated, screenings are open to students at the ASD only.
In the first of a series of impromptu cinema sessions, we will view films about two high-profile British artists that have been referenced in briefs set for Year One students.
David Hockney – Joiner Photographs (1983)
This documentary illustrates David Hockney’s process of taking multiple shots of a scene and then joining them together to create a montage
that provides a much richer sense of narrative and detail than a single photograph or even movie can portray. We see David capture a scene and go on to compose the finished image by laying out and overlapping the photographs, interspersed with enlightening interview footage and examples of other pieces made in the same vein. 27’ 46”
Rachel Whiteread (2002)
In this profile of Rachel Whiteread, she speaks about the inspiration behind some of her sculptures, including Monument, her austere contribution to the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, House, the concrete cast of the whole interior space of a terraced house and the powerful, Holocaust Memorial in Vienna. Also featured are a number of her domestic-scale castings of the voids created by furniture, floors and staircases. 26’ 17”
