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TITLE: DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA
CAST: David Hockney
DIRECTOR: Haas, Phillip
LENGTH: 48 min.
COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color
RELEASE_DATE: 1988
GENRE_MAIN: Documentary
GENRE_SECOND: Art
GENRE_THIRD: East/West
COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: U.S.
LANGUAGE: English
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RIGHTS_TV: TV
AVAILABILITY_DATE: Current
TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
TERRITORY_INTERNATIONAL: Latin America, World
SYNOPSIS: David Hockney invites the viewer on a magical journey down a legendary 72-foot-long 17th-century Chinese scroll. As he unrolls the richly detailed painting, Hockney traces the Emperor Kangxi's grand tour of his southern domains. The bustling streets and waterfronts of 399 years ago come alive in "mon-and-pop" dumpling shops, fishmongers hawking their wares, and bonsai vendors pruning trees. Comparing the work with a Canaletto painting and a later scroll, Hockney spins a dazzling discourse on Eastern and Western perspectives and their relationship to his own artistic vision. Hockney's trip through one of China's most magnificent artworks is a joyous adventure.
"Most extraordinary...compelling as a documentary about art, a telling portrait of Hockney himself and a revelation about perception and space and how we view the very life around us." San Francisco Chronicle
