This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim. Watch the full film here: vimeo.com/ondemand/116394
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2006. Behind the scenes at London’s National Portrait Gallery on Press Day, before the Hockney ‘Portraits’ exhibition opens. Some mixed emotions. By now David had had many retrospectives but even for someone so busy looking forward he was encountering in amongst all those iconic images a roll call of dead friends. But Celia Birtwell, one of his oldest friends, was on hand - so too the TV presenters and journalists Kirsty Wark and Jeremy Paxman, plus a fan from Spain.
Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, A Bigger Picture captures Britain’s most beloved painter at work. David Hockney’s return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood - outside, in all weathers, through the seasons - culminates in the largest picture ever made outdoors. It’s an inspiring story of a painter in creative dialogue with nature and photography, and a revealing portrait of Britain’s most popular and celebrated artist.
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“This wonderful film … will be of lasting importance for future generations who want to understand Hockney’s art.” Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4
“Bruno Wollheim’s portrait of this forthright magus is an unqualified, life-enhancing joy from start to finish.” - The Sunday Times
“This film may well be the best anyone will ever make about Hockney’s process.” - The Times, London.
“As gently hypnotic and fulfilling as one of Hockney’s own works.” - Time Out
“This impressive documentary is almost cinematic in its scope… both majestic and intimate” - The Observer
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