Bibliograph

Tim's Vermeer, Sony Pictures Classics in association with High Delft Pictures presents a Penn & Teller Film production ; producer Farley Ziegler ; directed by Teller

Type

Label

Tim's Vermeer, Sony Pictures Classics in association with High Delft Pictures presents a Penn & Teller Film production ; producer Farley Ziegler ; directed by Teller

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: PG-13; for some strong language, CHV rating: G

Main title

Tim's Vermeer

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

880641432

Responsibility statement

Sony Pictures Classics in association with High Delft Pictures presents a Penn & Teller Film production ; producer Farley Ziegler ; directed by Teller

Runtime

Summary

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did seventeenth century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically, 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification

Contributor