To Open Eyes

To Open Eyes

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Runtime

0h 32m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

To Open Eyes

Production Companies

Educational Communications Inc., Bittleman Works

Description

The genesis of To Open Eyes: A Film on Josef Albers developed from Arnold Bittleman's appreciation for Albers while Bittleman was a student at Yale University in the 1960s. Wanting to preserve Albers’s teaching method—learning by doing—Bittleman set out with filmmaker and editor Carl Howard to make a visual record of Albers teaching students how to see and use color as a visual grammar. The film includes archival footage of Josef Albers at home in conversation with Bittleman, as well as footage from Black Mountain College and Yale University.