Recording Edward Hopper’s work visually is an ambitious undertaking. Pictorial narration and intimate emotions are inseparable in the painter’s oeuvre. This documentary offers viewers these same paradoxical emotions.
To better understand the work of this paradoxical artist, the film takes us on a trip from his studios in New York, Cape Cod and Nyack, to Paris, guided by the voice of Edward Hopper himself, in an original interview, and also by the voice of Brian O’Doherty, Hopper’s friend and the last witness to have filmed him, and the voice of Wim Wenders, who speaks about light and cinema. The film draws on rare footage of Hopper (some of it previously unaired), and also on the MoMa storerooms, on the collection of paintings, on documents, on notebooks, and on photos given by his wife Jo to the Whitney Museum. It also draws on film extracts and on numerous archives on the artistic and social life in the America of the 1930s to the 1960s.
To better understand the work of this paradoxical artist, the film takes us on a trip from his studios in New York, Cape Cod and Nyack, to Paris, guided by the voice of Edward Hopper himself, in an original interview, and also by the voice of Brian O’Doherty, Hopper’s friend and the last witness to have filmed him, and the voice of Wim Wenders, who speaks about light and cinema. The film draws on rare footage of Hopper (some of it previously unaired), and also on the MoMa storerooms, on the collection of paintings, on documents, on notebooks, and on photos given by his wife Jo to the Whitney Museum. It also draws on film extracts and on numerous archives on the artistic and social life in the America of the 1930s to the 1960s.
Production
Jean-Pierre Devillers
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