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    ‘It was full of dreamy surfers’: David Hockney on 1960s California

    "Hockney Unlocked" is a series of 80 short films produced, directed and edited by Bruno Wollheim. The films are outtakes from his award-winning documentary, "David Hockney: A Bigger Picture", filmed single-handedly over five years with David Hockney. Here, Wollheim writes a commentary on some of the short films, informed by a friendship stretching back 30 years.

    In 2003 Id made my first documentary with David called "Double Portrait", about the relationships in his life. It was a psychological film with some dark undertones. He had liked it, somewhat to my surprise, and now in 2004 we were embarking on a biographical film, or so I thought. I asked David for a guided tour of his Los Angeles and a trip down memory lane.

    Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Jeff Goodman in 1963 © Dennis Hopper, Courtesy of The Hopper Art Trust

    It starts with the actor, photographer and director Dennis Hopper, one of the few people he knew when he first arrived on the West Coast in 1963. They had met earlier that year at Andy Warhols pre-Factory New York studio: a meeting commemorated in a photo taken the next day by Hopper on the Harlem set of the TV series Naked City, featuring four smokers, Warhol, Jeff Goodman, David Hockney and Henry Geldzahler, who was the Metropolitan Museums Curator for 20th-century art and soon to become a very close frRead More – Source

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