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Discovery in a Painting (2016)
Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer, Leo Hurwitz
Documentary · 30m
Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight. This film came as a challenge that Hurwitz made for himself, to replicate in film his experience of seeing a work of art — in this case Césanne’s Still Life with Apples, 1895-98, that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Although he finished the visual part of the film, he was stymied by the soundtrack in which he wanted no narration. About 45 years later, his colleague, Manfred Kirchheimer, created a sound track and produced the finished film.
Crew
- Director
- Manfred Kirchheimer, Leo Hurwitz
- Director of Photography
- Manfred Kirchheimer
- Editor
- Leo Hurwitz
- Producer
- Leo Hurwitz
Details
- Release date
- 2016-01-01
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Streetwise Films, Leo Hurwitz Productions