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Herb And Dorothy
''Herb and Dorothy'' is a 2008 documentary film by Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of two middle-class collectors of contemporary art, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the enormous and valuable collection of conceptual art and minimalist art they amassed in spite of their relatively meager salaries as New York City civil servants. Many artists are interviewed in the film, including Christo, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, and Pat Steir. , the film had made $194,721 at the box office. Awards *2008 Audience Award for Best Documentary, Hamptons International Film Festival *2008 Golden Starfish Documentary Feature Award, Hamptons International Film Festival *2008 Audience Award, Silverdocs Documentary Festival *2008 Audience Award for Best Documentary, Philadelphia Film Festival *2009 HBO Audience Award, Best Documentary, Provincetown International Film Festival References External links * * Herb and Dorothysite for Independent Lens on PBS The Public Broadcasting Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megumi Sasaki
Megumi Sasaki (佐々木 芽生 ''Sasaki Megumi'', born 1962) is a Japanese filmmaker and writer. Her films include ''Herb and Dorothy'', ''Herb & Dorothy 50x50'', and ''A Whale of a Tale''. Early life Born in Sapporo, she moved to New York City in 1987 and later worked for NHK as a reporter. Filmmaking career Sasaki's 2008 film ''Herb & Dorothy'' followed art collectors Herbert and Dorothy Vogel to document how they chose artwork for their collection. Five years later Sasaki released ''Herb & Dorothy 50x50'', which tracked the progress of the Vogels' efforts to donate fifty pieces from their collection to each of the fifty US states, but which the ''Los Angeles Times'' called "less personal than the earlier documentary". Sasaki's 2018 film ''A Whale of a Tale'' is a documentary about the Taiji dolphin drive hunt. It was created as a response to ''The Cove (film), The Cove'' and includes perspectives from Japanese fishermen as well as activists. Sasaki claims that sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
