Looking Is Hard Work-David Hockney outtake 55/80

This video is an outtake from David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim. Watch the full film here: NOW AVAILABLE WITH SUBTITLES: ENG SDH, FR, DE, IT, KO This was my first day of filming David at work painting the East Yorkshire Wolds. We had spent two hours out in Fridaythorpe near Huggate in the wind and intermittent rain, now he was finishing up the picture in his attic studio.  When we met up in Rome in 2007 to discuss the film he elected me his guide to the sights of the city. It was then I was forcibly struck by how he takes looking to another dimension, a quicksilver visual omni-voraciousness. The late October light in the attic studio was stunning, even with my basic Sony PD150 camera. - Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, A Bigger Picture captures Britain’s most beloved painter at work. David Hockney’s return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood – outside, i