Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
David Bickerstaff
Given complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, this is a major new film about one of the world’s favorite artists. The film provides viewers with the moving and inspiring experience of seeing Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic masterpieces close-up on the screen and presents new insights and interpretations by specially guests including V. Willem van Gogh, great-grandson of Theo van Gogh and contemporary artist Lachlan Goudie. Vincent’s illuminating letters to his family and friends are brought to life by dramatization, which puts flesh on the bones of a new biography. Recent research questions the many myths surrounding Vincent’s troubled life. We look closely at the life of a man who reminds us that, “Art is long and life is short.”
| Director | David Bickerstaff |
| Executive Production | Phil Grabsky |
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David Bickerstaff
David Bickerstaff is an artist and award-winning filmmaker who founded Atomictv in 1997 as an umbrella organisation for developing digital art projects and collaborations. His documentary work and video installations such as The Lukhang, Hygieia, Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl and Making War Horse have been broadcast in Britain and shown in many international festivals, which include the Welcome Collection, Vitra Museum, Onedotzero, Festival International du Film sur L’Art Montreal, and the documentary fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art New York. In recent years, he has been directing and filming a series of short artist documentaries for Art360 Foundation, which offers funding for artists to build an archive of their work.
David has also been collaborating with producer Phil Grabsky at the innovative Exhibition On Screen, directing, filming, and co-writing ten feature-length art documentaries. This popular series is distributed to 63 countries and shown in over 1500 cinemas worldwide. Each film looks at an iconic artist and a major exhibition of their work in world-renowned art galleries. Titles include Sunflowers, Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait, Van Gogh and Japan, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, Michelangelo: Love and Death, Canaletto and The Art of Venice, along with other films about artists such as Claude Monet, Hieronymus Bosch, and Francisco Goya.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
David has also been collaborating with producer Phil Grabsky at the innovative Exhibition On Screen, directing, filming, and co-writing ten feature-length art documentaries. This popular series is distributed to 63 countries and shown in over 1500 cinemas worldwide. Each film looks at an iconic artist and a major exhibition of their work in world-renowned art galleries. Titles include Sunflowers, Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait, Van Gogh and Japan, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, Michelangelo: Love and Death, Canaletto and The Art of Venice, along with other films about artists such as Claude Monet, Hieronymus Bosch, and Francisco Goya.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team