Herb and Dorothy (2008)
- Original title
- Herb & Dorothy
- Directed by
- Megumi Sasaki
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 23 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The documentary follows a retired postal worker and a librarian in New York City who built a major art collection on ordinary salaries. It shows how their passion, patience, and personal connections with artists led them to acquire hundreds of important minimalist and conceptual works.
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What happens
Herb and Dorothy is a 2008 documentary film by Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of two middle-class collectors of contemporary art, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the enormous and valuable collection of conceptual art and minimalist art they amassed in spite of their relatively meager salaries as New York City civil servants. Many artists are interviewed in the film, including Christo, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, and Pat Steir. As of September 2009, the film had made $194,721 at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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