A Bigger Splash (Blu-ray)
A Bigger Splash is an intimate and innovative film about English-born, California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject through creative risk-taking. Director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as his circle of friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney
and his muse, an American named Peter Schlesinger. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s, an honest-yet-tender depiction of gay male romance that dispenses with the then-current narratives of self-hatred and self-pity, an invaluable view of art history in action, and a record of artistic creation that is itself a work of art.
Audio commentary by director Jack Hazan
Booklet essay by film critic Nick Pinkerton
Love's Presentation (1962)
Portrait of David Hockney (1972)
Theatrical trailer
- Jack Hazan - Director
- David Hockney - Actor
- Peter Schlesinger - Actor
- Celia Birtwell - Actor
- Mo McDermott - Actor
- Henry Geldzahler - Actor
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