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The silence of Rothko / a film by Marjoleine Boonstra ; director, script, photography, Marjoleine Boonstra ; Boonstra Foto & Film.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970.
- Rothko, Mark.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on landing page: Silence of Mark Rothko
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In The silence of Mark Rothko, we visit Rothko's studio at 22 Bowery in New York, and go to Florence's Museo di san Marco, where the monastic work of Renaissance painter Fra Angelico deeply influenced Rothko's mission to create environments and not just paintings. In The Hague, filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra introduces us to curator Franz Kaiser of the Gemeentemuseum, as his team installs the works for the first major Rothko exhibit to be held in Holland in 40 years. The film includes thoughtful, engaging commentary from experts including Rothko's biographer, Annie Cohen-Solal, and conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (who speculates on whether splotches of paint on the studio floor may have been Rothko's). Fittingly though, for a film about a painter whose greatest works evoke both silence and emotion, The silence of Mark Rothko lingers on paintings and locations--using architectural shots, interiors and streetscapes, to link Rothko's paintings to the world he inhabited.
- Participant:
- Annie Cohen-Solal, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro.
- Credits:
- Research, script, production, Lies Janssen ; editing, Menno Boerama ; music, Harry de Wit ; translations, Helen Reid, Erik Pezarro.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Avrotros, Aperta, Boonstrata Foto & Film, ©2014 ; previously released in 2015.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 16, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-roth Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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