BIGGER SPLASH, A (1973)
Special Features: 4K Restoration; 50th Anniversary
Presented in recognition of Pride Month
An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work, A BIGGER SPLASH honors its subject through creative risk-taking. Filmmaker 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 love affair between Hockney and his muse, an American named Peter Schlesinger. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s, an honest-yet-tender depiction of gay male romance that dispenses with the then-current narratives of self-hatred and self-pity, an invaluable view of art history in action and a record of artistic creation that is itself a work of art. (Note courtesy of Metrograph Pictures.) DIR/SCR/PROD Jack Hazan; SCR David Mingay; PROD Mike Kaplan. UK, 1973, color, 106 min. NOT RATED
4K DCP Restoration by Mark Rance, Watchmaker Films. Restored from the original 35mm color camera negative. Audio restored from mono 35mm optical negative reels. Restoration supervised by Jack Hazan.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, June 24, 2023
Genre: Documentary - art
