A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

(1988)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1988

Runtime: 46 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Philip Haas

Cast: David Hockney

Plot

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.