Amei Wallach & Marion Cajori • U.S. • 2008 • The life and imagination of an icon of modern art.
As an artist, Louise Bourgeois is best known for her large-scale sculptures, towering arachnids that seem to defy gravity. As a screen presence, she is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. From her time spent in the company of French surrealists to the postwar Modernist era, the French-American sculptress simultaneously synthesized and defied tradition in her artistic exploration of the body, memory, gender, and sexuality. In 1982 she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Filmed inside Bourgeois’s Brooklyn studio prior to her death in 2010 at the age of 98, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine engages gracefully and intimately with the artist’s emotional-artistic world. Amei Wallach and Marion Cajori’s documentary premiered at Thessaloniki and the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland • United States • 2017 • A stirring portrait of queer icon Cecil Beaton.
Cecil Beaton was an incandescent talent. Born to a well-to-do British family, Beaton charmed his way into the upper echelons of the elite, learning to photograph on his nanny’s camera before embarki...
Ric Burns • United States • 2020 • A beloved figure who redefined understanding of the human mind.
Oliver Sacks discovered he was going to die in January 2015. Born and raised in London to physician parents—his mother was one of the first female surgeons in England—perhaps no one has illuminated...
Samba Gadjigo & Jason Silverman • 2015 • Senegal
Compiled from rare archival footage and hours of exclusive footage, Sembene! chronicles the life and work of the legendary Senegalese film director, considered by many to be the father of African cinema.
Ousmane Sembene grew up in Senegal, d...
