Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
Cinematography
The scroll becomes cinema; camera follows Hockney's finger like a guided meditation.
Direction
Haas lets Hockney ramble gloriously—no script, just genuine wonder.
Director
Philip Haas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hockney discovered this scroll method while researching his own 'joiner' photo collages, stealing from 17th-century Chinese artists to solve 20th-century Western problems.
The scroll's 'multiple viewpoints' technique directly influenced Hockney's later iPad landscapes—he spent decades chasing what Kangxi's court painters invented in 1691.
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