Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Checkerboard Film Foundation
Cast & Crew
A
Alvin Curran
Sound
E
Edgar Howard
Producer
V
Vivien Bittencourt
Director
V
Vincent Katz
Director
Rudy Burckhardt Man in the Woods
23 minDocumentary
A detailed look at a remarkable artist who died in 1999 at age 85 Aspects of Burckhardts work in photography film and painting are examined in interviews with Rudy Burckhardt painter Yvonne Jacquette and curators Robert Storr former Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Museum of Modern Art New York and Brian Wallis Chief Curator International Center of Photography New York In his studio in New York Burckhardt discusses his photography and its significance within its historical framework In the woods near his summer home in Maine the viewer sees Burckhardts easel and painting in front of the scene he is depicting Whether in city or country Burckhardt appreciated and transformed the chaos he discovered
DirectorsVivien BittencourtVincent Katz