National Gallery 2014

The watcher watched... and listened to. Using the keen ethnographic and cinematic eye that has taken us into the heart of asylums, high schools, missile silos, small towns, nightclubs, college campuses, zoos and the meat industry, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his gaze on London's National Gallery. Here, the power of Art competes with the structures and goals of the institution, in a dialectic of sounds (tours, explanations, meetings, music) and vision that embodies the fundamental tensions of museums themselves.