Microcinema DVD
847 Takahika Iimura 600x100
Microcinema DVD
BROWSE ENTIRE STORE

SEARCH ENTIRE STORE


microcinema exclusive

GENRE
Animation
Architecture
Art / Artist
Children / Family
Comedy / Satire
Design / Fashion
Documentary
Erotic
Experimental
Horror / Bizarre
LGBT
Ambient Cinema ™
Mixed
Music
Narrative
New Media
Photography
Political / Social
Video & Film Art
TYPE
Collection / Box Set
Feature
Short
Shorts Compilation
PRODUCTS
DVD
Interactive
Music CD

shopping cart

Professional Login

Microcinema DVD News Microcinema DVD News

New Releases 

BROWSE ENTIRE STORE
 
Genre > Documentary > Rothko's Rooms
Rothko's Rooms
The Life and Works of an American Artist
MC-908, 2000
$US 19.99 on sale: 30% off! $13.99

$US 19.99 on sale: 25% off! $14.99

what's this?
Availability: Now!
Format: DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All)
Wholesale pricing available
US List Price: $US 19.99
European List Prices: £13.99 / 19.99€
License for theatrical exhibition
E-mail Email this page to a friend

Synopsis Details Reviews Similar Items Screenings
In the late 1940s and ‘50s, Mark Rothko (1903-70) was one of the leading American artists who created wall-scale abstract paintings that filled the viewer’s field of vision and became a form of environment. Rothko spoke of wanting the spectator to feel inside the pictorial space, enveloped in his canvases’ luminous colour and apparitional surfaces. Together with painters such as Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, he wanted to express a sense of the sublime, an idea associated with religious awe, vastness and natural magnificence.

Filmed on both sides of the Atlantic, this documentary chronicling Rothko’s life and charting the development of his work fills the screen with his softly defined, rectangular clouds of colour stacked symmetrically on top of one another: a visual language conceived to evoke elemental emotions with maximum poignancy. There are penetrating contributions from his daughter, Kate, and his son, Christopher, and comments from a wide range of friends, artists, art historians, collectors and curators. The focus is on Rothko’s demands for the perfect setting for the showing of his work, an ideal he pursued throughout his creative life, typified by the story of his iconic Seagram murals, nine of which now hang in a dedicated room at London’s newly-opened Tate Modern. One of the murals’ commissioners, architect Philip Johnson, is among those who explain why Rothko refused to allow these works to hang in their intended venue, the exclusive Four Seasons restaurant in New York.
Genre > Documentary > Rothko's Rooms
NEWSLETTER SIGN UP
copyright 2000-2008, Microcinema International, All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | About Us | Contact Us
In The Microcinema Family
Microcinema Intl.
Independent Exposure