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Hockney
- Director: Randall Wright
- Producer: Mark Bell; Denys Blakeway
CGiii Comment
Mr Hockney is - quite possibly - the most documented artist...living.
What more can we learn?
11 years on and Wright re-visits his favourite subject...11 years older, growing more mellow with each passing year...? Nonsense.
Recently, he announced that gay men have become ‘boring’ and ‘conservative’.
“Bohemia is gone now,” he said. Isn't that sad?
Approaching 80, Hockney may be a little frail...but, those years have given him a unique history, he is more than qualified to comment upon the world-at-large...he's had a large life. And still, sharp as a pin.
His art has evolved, he embraces emerging technology...refreshingly, not the Luddite.
The younger LGBT community can learn much from the older generation...although, they seem to listen not...sad.
Equality at the expense of identity...
Well, Mr Hockney has a well-defined identity...and, we will continue to listen to anything he has to say...he is - afterall - a senior, trail-blazing member of a community subdued by creeping conservatism and the over-riding need to fit in.
How we all have changed!
Long live Bohemia.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Hockney sees the charismatic artist take director Randall Wright on an exclusive tour of his archives and into his studio, where he still paints seven days a week. The film, which looks back at Hockney's formative years in the British Pop Art scene and his experience of being a gay man as the Aids crisis took hold, as well as his years working in California.