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7.3/10 • 40

2014-10-083h 0m

Documentary

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery's visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.

Directors
Frederick Wiseman
Writters
Frederick Wiseman
Editors
Frederick Wiseman, Frederick Wiseman

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  1. Leanne Benjamin

    Leanne Benjamin

  2. Kausikan Rajeshkumar

    Kausikan Rajeshkumar

  3. Jo Shapcott

    Jo Shapcott

  4. Edward Watson

    Edward Watson

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Sep 3, 2022

6/10

If you can visit the National Gallery in London personally, more power to you. For those of us who can’t, though, National Gallery is the next best thing. As is par for the course in a Frederick Wiseman doc, we learn a lot about the subject matter, and we do it by smosis; not in scripted interviews, but like any other museum visitor; i.e., listening to the guides, whom Wiseman allows to go on at length to better recreate the real experience. Additionally, as he is also wont to do, Wiseman peeks behind the scenes at the internal mechanism of the institution; in this case, the backstage look is not limited to the administrative inner workings, but also includes invaluable visits to the workshops where anonymous artists carry out the very important task of retouching, restoring, and preserving. Specifically, the National Gallery is an art gallery — that is, a space destined exclusively for the exhibition of artistic works of a pictorial nature —, but this institution emphasizes the integration of the arts, and accordingly the museum halls welcome such artistic expressions as a piano recital or a ballet.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
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Keywords
danceart