Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
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A Bigger Splash
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Friday Aug 13, 2010 (8pm)
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$7
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“The art-world elite abound in this film named after one of David Hockney's swimming pool paintings: the quasi-documentary A Bigger Splash explores the disintegration of Hockney's love affair with Peter Schlesinger through fragmented, staged scenes and techniques of cinema verité. Hockney is one of England's biggest and most enduring pop artists, and the film is peopled with many illustrious fixtures of the pop-art demi-monde of swinging '60s London, Geneva, California, and New York. That Hockney along with his friends plays himself in situations that may or may not have happened makes this self-conscious film utterly irresistable. (Like when Henry Geldzahler, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, strikes a pose that Hockney once painted him in.)”
Rozalia Jovanovic, Flavorpill
Light Industry says:
Light Industry presents an evening with Little Joe, a new zine out of London “about queers and cinema, mostly." Tonight’s event will begin with a screening of A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan’s quasi-documentary portrait of David Hockney from 1973. Hockney expected Hazan, who is interviewed at length in Little Joe No. 1, to produce "a series of paintings to a backing of Bach," but the final result is something altogether different. Jack Hazan, 1973, 106 mins.
