Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
| Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse | |
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 Video cover | |
| Directed by | Tom Neff |
| Starring | Red Grooms |
| Cinematography | Tom Neff Steve Schklair Mark Pleasant |
| Edited by | Barry Rubinow |
| Music by | Jeffrey Steinberg |
| Distributed by | Direct Cinema[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse is a 1986 short film biography of the Nashville-born artist Red Grooms.[2] It was written by Tom Neff, co-directed by Neff and Louise LeQuire, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell.[3] The film was funded by the Tennessee State Museum and was nominated for an Academy Award[4] for Documentary Short Subject.
Synopsis
[edit]A glimpse of Red and reflection of his humor and humanism on his artwork.[5]
Interviews
[edit]- Red Grooms
- Barbara Haskell - curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Awards
[edit]Wins
Nominations
- Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Documentary, Short Subjects, Tom Neff and Madeline Bell; 1987.[7]
Notes
[edit]External links
[edit]- Tom Neff official web site (see Films for film clip)
- Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse at IMDb
- AllMovie
Categories:
- 1986 films
- 1986 short documentary films
- American short documentary films
- Documentary films about visual artists
- Films directed by Tom Neff
- American independent films
- 1986 independent films
- 1980s English-language films
- 1980s American films
- English-language short documentary films
- English-language independent films