A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth (1988)
• March 18th, 1988 • 0h 46min
Documentary
Overview
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
Released on: 1989-11-01
Documentary
Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...
I Needed Color
Released on: 2017-07-25
Documentary
Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.
Resolved
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
The fascinating complexity of high school debate gives way to a portrait of the equally complex raci...
Jisoe
Released on: 2005-01-21
Documentary
A year in the life of troubled Australian graffiti artist Justin Hughes.
Caligula with Mary Beard
Released on: 2013-07-29
Documentary, History
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Released on: 2005-01-01
Documentary, Music
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
The Tea Explorer
Released on:
Documentary
The Tea Explorer documentary follows the journey of tea enthusiast Jeff Fuchs along the Tea Horse Ro...
On Rubik's Road
Released on: 2010-04-05
Documentary
Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latv...
Word Wars
Released on: 2004-05-28
Documentary
The classic board game, Scrabble, has been popular for decades. In addition, there are fanatics who ...
Crumb
Released on: 1994-09-10
Documentary
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew...
Why Horror?
Released on: 2014-10-03
Documentary, Horror
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people lo...
Videosyncracy
Released on: 2010-09-07
Documentary
As the dissociated convenience of the Internet and globalized corporate culture continue to shut dow...
Earth Under Water
Released on: 2010-12-01
Documentary
Miami, New Orleans and New York City completely under water it’s a very real possibility if sea leve...
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
Released on: 2011-07-01
Documentary
Todd Loren, whose scandalous series of unauthorized comic book biographies of rock stars enraged and...
Jeff McBride: A Magickal Life
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary
Jeff McBride is a magician, a master of the arts of deception, and a follower of a spiritual path ba...
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Released on: 2002-03-15
Documentary
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a de...
Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara
Released on: 1988-01-01
Documentary
In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and ...
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Released on: 2011-11-19
Documentary
As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial po...