All About Looking

Produced by Richard Stilwell. 29 min. Color. 1996. Available as: VHS and DVD Captioned: No Catalog #: 0107 Order this title Sale Price: $195.00 Apply for Discount

Renowned American artist Jim Dine teaches drawing (from male and female nude models) at the famed Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildene Kunst in Salzburg, Austria. The method is rigorous: Models maintain one pose per week; students keep their easels in the same place and each day make a complete, well-observed drawing; then every morning the students have to erase their work and start again.

The class (and the viewer) learns that the effort is not geared toward the creation of a finished product; it is the process that is all important -- an understanding that is both liberating and fortifying and designed to enable the student to look and to see.

This outstanding portrait of Dine as an artist and as a teacher was produced by Richard Stilwell for Outside in July, Inc. It makes an excellent companion piece to our noted title, Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls.

Reviews

"Dine the teacher emerges in this film, and he is first-rate. His bald head and hard, dark eyes become emblems of clarity as he pushes his students to draw and redraw the same two nude models. The film is nothing less than revelatory -- a primer in the art of seeing." -- Stephan Talty, Time Out/New York

"Connects us to an artist with an intensity we rarely see... a moving glimpse into the roots of creativity." -- Chicago Tribune

Awards

• National Educational Film Festival Award
• Montreal Intl. Festival of Films on Art honoree
• National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) screening selection
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) screening selection