CHIHULY IN THE HOTSHOP
BLU-RAY

Chihuly in the Hotshop is presented here for the first time in high definition, allowing you to see the beautiful colors and fascinating techniques up close and crystal clear. The process of glassblowing has never been more captivating!

In 2006 the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, invited Chihuly to work in their state-of-the-art hotshop, an amphitheater specifically designed to allow the audience to watch the action close at hand. Chihuly's residency soon became the idea for this documentary as he set forth on an ambitious program that would reflect the sum total of his work in glass over the last thirty years. All thirteen of his best-known series were revisited along with more than forty artists and gaffers who had worked with Chihuly at the time of the inception of each series.

" A breathtaking opera of light, sound, movement, grandeur, and daring creative energy.Ó Thomas Hoving, author and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chihuly in the Hotshop premiered on opening weekend at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in January 2008. The film had its Northwest premier at the Museum of Glass and on KCTS this February 2008, in addition to a screening at the 31st Portland International Film Festival. Chihuly in the Hotshop will wrap up its 2008 film-festival tour with a screening at HDFest, a major digital-cinema festival being held in New York City in October at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab.

If you were unable to attend the film festivals mentioned above, please search your local PBS station for available screenings. This program is being distributed by American Public Television beginning November 1, 2008.

Chapter 1:     Cylinders
Chapter 2:     Baskets
Chapter 3:     Seaforms
Chapter 4:     Macchia
Chapter 5:     Soft Cylinders
Chapter 6:     Persians
Chapter 7:     Venetians
Chapter 8:     Piccolo Venetians
Chapter 9:     Putti
Chapter 10:   Ikebana
Chapter 11:   Niijima Floats
Chapter 12:   Pilchuck Stumps
Chapter 13:   Fiori


Directed by Peter West.
Produced by Mark McDonnell for Portland Press.
Music by Tom Tom Club.
2008 Portland Press
All rights reserved
90 minute DVD