Cool School - Story Of Ferus Art Gallery, The

Aroview: Los Angeles’ unheralded contemporary art scene is given the celebrity treatment in this uncharted history of the American pop art movement (chiefly, between 1957-66).

Centred on the iconic Ferus Gallery, champion of a bevy of new school painters and sculptors, as well as profiling such hometown heroes as Frank Gehry, Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell, the documentary informatively reclaims the city’s forgotten artistic past. Jeff Bridges narrates.

NZ International Film Festival 2008