National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
The realisation of a long-held desire to make a film in and about an art museum, this insightful, often droll portrait of London’s venerable institution is one of Wiseman’s most self-reflexive works.
A gallery tour unlike any other, it takes in public and private spaces and invites us to ponder the processes of making, exhibiting and viewing art. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.
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