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A Bigger Splash

(Jack Hazan, 1973)

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A Bigger Splash

Titled after one of David Hockney’s best-known paintings, A Bigger Splash offers an intimate, innovative account of the English-born artist’s process and personal obsessions. Hazan’s semi-improvised, narrative-nonfiction hybrid captures Hockney at a moment of crisis as he struggles to work after the end of his relationship with his muse, American artist Peter Schlesinger. The film offers a snapshot of Hockney’s career as well as an unfiltered (and often steamy) look at gay life in the early 1970s. (106 mins., DCP)

"Private and odd, archly dreamy and intimate, A Bigger Splash remains one of the more uniquely hypnotic movies about the connection between presented life and pulsating art."
A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

A Bigger Splash

A Bigger Splash, image courtesy Metrograph Pictures

SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO
Rohauer Collection Foundation

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Ohio Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation

SUPPORT FOR ARTS ACCESS
Cardinal Health Foundation
Huntington Bank

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A Bigger Splash