Rothko's rooms
By: produced and directed by David Thompson ; a BBC/Reinier Moritz Associates co-production
Contributors: Barlow, Dilly, narrator; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; Reiner Moritz Associates; Kultur International Films
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780769787558
Subjects: Painters; Tate Modern (Gallery); Criticism and interpretation; Biography
Other titles: Life and works of an American artist; Art zone (Television program)
Description: Chronicles Rothko's life, charting the development of his work, which fills the screen with his softly defined, rectangular clouds of color stacked symmetrically on top of one another. Conceived to evoke elemental emotions and maximum poignancy. The focus is on Rothko's demands for the perfect setting for the showing of his work, an ideal he pursued throughout his creative life, typified by the story of his iconic Seagram murals, nine of which now hang in a dedicated room at London's newly-opened Tate Modern.
Notes: Sound, Bob Briscoe ; camera, Mike Robinson ; film editor, Malcolm Daniel ; [series] editor, Peter Maniura.

Narrated by Dilly Barlow.

Originally broadcast in 2000 on Art zone.

DVD, NTSC, all regions; Dolby Digital 2.0.; Anamorphic widescreen.