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Tim's Vermeer is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Teller released in USA on 6 december 2013 with Penn Jillette

Tim's Vermeer (2013)

Tim's Vermeer
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Released in USA 6 december 2013
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating77% 3.8934753.8934753.8934753.8934753.893475

Tim's Vermeer is a documentary film, directed by Teller, produced by his stage partner Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler, about inventor Tim Jenison's efforts to duplicate the painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, in order to test his theory that Vermeer painted with the help of optical devices.

The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in limited theatrical release in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on January 31, 2014.

Synopsis

Tim Jenison is an inventor who has become the successful founder of NewTek, a company working in various fields of computer graphics, most notably the 3D modelling software LightWave 3D. Jenison, himself both an engineer and art enthusiast, becomes fascinated with the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, a 17th-century Dutch painter, whose paintings have been oft cited to have a photographic quality to them; Jenison, spurred by the book Secret Knowledge by British artist David Hockney and Vermeer's Camera by British architecture professor Philip Steadman, theorizes that Vermeer potentially used a camera obscura to guide his painting technique.

Actors

Penn Jillette

(Himself)
Martin Mull

(Himself)
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