Anthony Montagu Roland is a British producer of films about art. Roland is best known for producing the series of films about art comprising the Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art, and for his concept of the open air presentation of these films.
Early career
Anthony Roland was born in London in 1936. His parents were Dr. Henry Roland (1907-1993) and Joyce Coe. His father was one of the founders of art dealers Roland, Browse and Delbanco at Cork Street in London. He started his career as a collector and dealer in
and modern paintings. He lived in Paris for 12 years before returning to England.
Roland Collection
The Roland Collection of films and documentaries about art and modern literature is a selection of the work of 230 film producers from 25 countries. More than 4,000 museums, art galleries and other types of institution from 82 countries have shown films from this collection. The resource guide shows that over 600 films are available, and Roland has himself produced himself 16 of these. The Roland Collection was one of the official cultural events at the
Mexico Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...
in 1968.
Art films in London
Anthony Roland started collecting films on art when he was 24. He sponsored his own lecture tour of the US, where he found institutions which had the budgets to realise his ideas. He insisted on high quality of presentation and films being shown together rather than as being seen as 'shorts' alongside other films.
In November 1964 Roland presented his own film about the drawings of
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...
at the Academy Cinema in London, alongside a screening of
Alain Jessua
Alain Jessua (16 January 1932 – 30 November 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of ''Casque d'or'', with Max Ophüls ...
's film ''
La Vie à l'envers''. In the summer of 1966 at the same cinema, in the 40-minute film ''Rembrandt's Christ'' he used the drawings of
Rembrandt to illustrate an account of the Gospel story.
Art film centre
In October 1969 Roland opened the 400-seater Art Film Centre, at 6 Leicester Place off Leicester Square in London, where two cinemas showed a programme of over 60 of his best films on art. Later that year in the Centre he presented Kaleidoscope, a programme of art films for children.
Art Hopping
Anthony Roland's latest project is title
Art Hopping Developed in partnership with
ICOM for International Museum Day from 12 May to 31 May 2013, two sets of free films from the Roland Collection are freely available. Typically for museums to provide for their visitors, the user points a smartphone at one of the
QR code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about th ...
s on the poster to obtain immediate showing of a film. The intention is to provide this educational service to museums, universities and schools.
Publications
* Anthony Roland. ''Videos on Art'' - a resource guide to films and videos available worldwide from the Roland Collection. (1996)
Peasmarsh
Peasmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Rother district, in the county of East Sussex in England. It is located on the A268 road between Rye and Beckley, some north-west of Rye.
The village church, dedicated to St Peter and Paul, lie ...
, East Sussex, England and
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, US. Available in the following editions
[Videos on Art, p.2]
** RC1 ''Videos on Art''
** RC2 - - airmail edition
** RC3 - - edition with seven and a half hours of video sequences from most titles
** RC4 - - with French translation on 3.5" 1.44mb floppy disc
** RC5 - - airmail edition with French translation on 3.5" 1.44mb floppy disc
** RC6 - - with French translation on 3.5" 1.44mb floppy disc and with seven and a half hours of video sequences from most titles
See also
* The
Art Arena in Sunderland.
References
External links
The Roland CollectionThe Art Arena Charity (2003)
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1936 births
Living people
Art dealers from London
British film producers
People educated at St Mary's Town and Country School
People from Peasmarsh