Director
Peter Rosen

Director of Photography
Yan Vizinberg

Editor
Jedd Parker
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Through an imaginative mixture of rare footage, audio recordings and contemporary interviews with the living legends of modern art, Rosen has created a cinematic portrait which is, in itself, a work of art.
- Film Threat

“Both richly complex and immediately accessible.”
- Variety

“Through his use of green screen and montage, Rosen seems to want to position his film as its own work of Pop Art.”
- Slant Magazine

“The film’s appeal is for the eyes.”
- New York Daily News
Who Get to Call It Art? (2006)
Chosen by Time Magazine for its list of Top Ten DVDs of 2006, “Who Gets to Call It Art?” is a wild ride through the fascinating world of the 1960’s New York art scene, as seen through the eyes of Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler.
Henry Geldzahler (left) and David Hockney (right) stand in front of Hockney’s painting “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott,” painted in 1969. Photo courtesy of David Hockney
“Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott” (1969), David Hockney. Image courtesy of David Hockney
Directed by Peter Rosen and filmed by Yan Vizinberg, the production took the crew into the studios of such iconoclastic pop-art figures as Frank Stella, David Hockney, James Rosenquist, Larry Poons and Francesco Clemente.
Henry Geldzahler and David Hockney. Photo courtesy of Robert Doisneau
Produced by Peter Rosen Productions, “Who Gets to Call It Art?” won the Best Film Award at the 2005 Roma Art Doc Fest in Italy, premiered at New York City’s Film Forum and is available on DVD through Palm Pictures.