A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
7.7198846m
Documentary
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
Cast
David Hockney
Self
You Might Also Like
Interview Record of New Artists
2026
No image
Black Pénélope
1991
Kaarel Kurismaa. The Limits of Timelessness
2024
6.0
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
2017
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993
Costakis: The Collector
1983
That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town
2010
6.0
The Liberation of Paris
1944
2.0
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
2017
9.0
Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
1987
7.0
Rafael Azcona
2010
Kokoschka: Work and Life
2017