A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
Trailer: A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
Year: 1988
Genre: Documentary
Studio:
Director: Philip Haas
Cast: David Hockney
Crew: Philip Haas (Producer), Philip Haas (Director), Marc Wilkinson (Music), Susumu Tokunow (Sound Editor), Curtiss Clayton (Editor), David Hockney (Writer)
Runtime: 46 minutes
Release: Mar 18, 1988
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

Careless Reef part 2: Abu Kiffan (2005)
Abu Kiffan is the name of a reef near Safaga in Egypt. In the film we are drowned in sound, time slows down and we are given a closer look at...

Faces Places (2017)
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Kandinsky (1986)
Colour, form, area - this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der...

The Road Forward (2017)
The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of...

Working Women (1978)
Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary,...

Crumb (1994)
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a...

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace (1996)
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren (1972)

The Original Richard McMahan (2016)
The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and...

Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003)
The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the...

Dolorès Marat: The Wave (1970)
A passionate photographer from an early age, Dolorès Marat spent much of her life in photo labs, developing shots for fashion magazines. In...

Julia (2021)
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film...

Alarum (2025)
Two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe and Lara are...

Joy (2024)
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their...

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But...

Halloween II (1981)
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie...

The Parenting (2025)
Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

Nightbitch (2024)
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as...

Heavenly Touch (2009)
Jonard is having trouble making ends meet. His mother is suffering from depression, and he and his sister are forced to quit school in order to take...

Transmorphers: Mech Beasts (2023)
20 years after the events of Transmorphers, a newer, more advanced species of alien robot descends on a rebuilt Earth, threatening once again to...

Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
Corinne (Barbie) is a young country girl who heads to Paris to pursue her big dream – to become a female musketeer! Never could she imagine she...

Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet...

The Body (2024)
Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part of a police inspector after her body disappears...