Tim's Vermeer movie plot
2022-07-20 11:21
Synopsis
Famed magician and revealing duo Paine & Taylor team up to explore the famous Dutch painter Vermeer, trying to find out why his paintings capture the perfect light. They also invited inventor Tim Jennison to use optical instruments to reproduce Vermeer's oil paintings, perfectly recreating the famous style.
Tim's Vermeer Awards
64th ACE EDDIE AWARDS (2014)
Best Editing for a Documentary (Nominated) Patrick Sheffield
19th Critics' Choice Film Awards (2014)
Best Documentary (Nominated)
18th Annual Satellite Awards (2014)
Best Documentary in Film Division (Nominated)
Extended Reading
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Tim Jenison: There's also this modern idea that art and technology must never meet - you know, you go to school for technology or you go to school for art, but never for both... And in the Golden Age, they were one and the same person.
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Penn Jillette: Museums don't loan stuff from the 1600s to video engineers with a wacky hobby.