Museum Cinema in the Footsteps of the Impressionists / Degas: Passion for Perfection, 2018
Film series in collaboration with the Jerusalem Cinematheque
Mondays at 18:30
To mark the exhibition To Catch a Fleeting Moment: 150 Years of Impressionism, we are pleased to present a series of select films that take the viewers on the lives journeys into portrayals of the greatest artists and their work.
Admission includes a visit to the exhibition and a movie.
* Please note that on Mondays the museum is open for this activity only, and there is no admission to other museum exhibitions.
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Degas: Passion for Perfection, 2018 | Directed by David Bickerstaff, UK, 85 mins, English, Hebrew subtitles
The superb Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge holds the most extensive collection of Degas’ works. With exclusive access to view the works in the collections, Degas: Passion for Perfection offers a unique insight into the artist’s personal and creative life. It uncovers the fascinating story of Degas’ obsessive pursuit of perfection—both through experimentation with new techniques and by studying past masters. Drawing on written accounts by friends and commentators, and the narration of letters written by Degas himself, this film reveals a more complex truth behind one of the most influential French artists of the late nineteenth-century.
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The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
The film takes place near a secure space.
This film series is presented in collaboration with the Jerusalem Cinematheque. It includes a selection from the unique series Exhibition on Screen, which presents some of the most influential and fascinating exhibitions held around the world. Through cinematic exploration of the corridors of museums and insights from the world’s leading historians, curators, and art critics, the films take the viewer on fascinating journeys into portrayals of the greatest artists and their work.
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More films on Museum-Cinema:
19/8 — Renoir: Revered and Reviled, 2016 >
9/9 — I, Claude Monet, 2016 >
16/9 — The Impressionists—And the Man Who Made Them, 2015 >
30/9 — Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman, 2023 >
14/10 — Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, 2016 >
28/10 — Pissarro: Father Of Impressionism, 2022 >
4/11 — The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin, 2021 >