Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Laughing Mountain Communications
Is There a Picture
1 hr 35 minDocumentary
Plot
IS THERE A PICTURE tells the remarkableand improbablestory of a unique group of artists who used photography to launch a farflung city into the fine arts stratosphere An outgrowth of our earlier production PICTURE START this 95minute documentary tracks the rise of Marian Penner Bancroft Christos Dikeakos Rodney Graham Jeff Wall and Ian Wallace from the rich countercultural milieu of 1960s Vancouver to their place of global prominence today Drawing back the curtain on this extraordinary set of artists IS THERE A PICTURE offers rare insight into their work their relationships with one another and how it is they emerged in a city until recently known more for its surrounding forests than its art
