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A Bigger Splash

by Jack Hazan
UK, 1974, 105′
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte per Secret Florence 2021
SCREENPLAY: Jack Hazan, David Mingay
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jack Hazan
EDITING: David Mingay
INTERPRETERS: David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell, Henry Geldzahler, Mo McDermott, Kasmin, Mike Sida, Ossie Clark, Patrick Procktor
MUSIC: Patrick Gowers
PRODUCER: Jack Hazan per Buzzy Enterprises Ltd
LANGUAGE: Vo: English; Sub: Italian
Film remastered in 4K
Cult film set in the swinging London of the late ’60s. It is the biography of British artist David Hockney interpreted by himself and his circle of friends. On its release, it caused a scandal because of explicit homosexual sex scenes.
Jack Hazan born in Manchester in 1939, Hazan trained in California where he moved in 1950s to study Motion Picture Arts at UCLA. He went back to the UK in 1960s joining the BBC Film Department and worked as cinematographer on television documentaries. By the end of the 60s he had directed docu-fiction films juxtaposing the pop-punk music and artistic scenario with the political context.
Selected Filmography
Grant North (cm, 1969), The Films of Robert Bolt (mm, doc., 1972), A Bigger Splash (doc., 1974), Comic Act (1998).