20 minute film. Written and directed by Martha Parsey.
Filmed in Paris at the Francis Bacon retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the film accompanies the curator and close friend of Bacon, David Sylvester, as he hangs the exhibition. Previously unpublished interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester accompany us through the exhibition as Francis Bacon describes in his own words the works that make up his life’s work. In Paris, the city where as a young man Francis Bacon first decided to paint, and David Sylvester, also as a young man first started to write on art, this is a testament to their lasting friendship and hails Bacon as one of the most important painters of our time.