Jake Auerbach

Lucian Freud: Portraits

Jake Auerbach

Lucian Freud

Filmmaker Jake Auerbach decides to offer a description of his friend Lucian Freud that's more truthful than the common media image by asking a number of people who have sat for Freud's portraits to share their experiences with the camera. They include several of Freud's friends and daughters, and the film becomes a depiction not only of his art, but also his private persona. Lucian Freud does not appear, with the exception of a brief shot at the end of the film.

R B Kitaj: A Life

Jake Auerbach

A Documentary about Painter R B Kitaj. Though Kitaj was one of the most public of artists, making some of the most immediate, accessible and honest images of our age, he was also a very private man, determined to avoid the spontaneity of film. He finally relented in 1994 and the result is a remarkably candid look at his life and work. "My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now." R. B. Kitaj. The film transports us from the early years of baseball and girls in upstate New York, to his years as a merchant seaman on the Romance Run , through post war Vienna to London where he placed himself at the centre of 'The School of London' with friends David Hockney, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff and Lucian Freud.

20 Sites N Years

Jake Auerbach

Tom Phillips

Artist Tom Phillips walks us through his ongoing project to photograph the same 20 London locations once a year for the rest of his life.

Sickert's London

Jake Auerbach

Documentary film