Celebrating Women Artists & Filmmakers
Thursday, June 23 | 5:30 & 8 pm
Friday, June 24 | 5:30 & 8 pm
Born to a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, Eva Hesse broke into the New York art scene at its zenith in the mid-1960s. Though she would become close to many within the minimalist movement—including her mentor Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, and Carl Andre—Hesse forged her own, extremely idiosyncratic path. Eva Hesse charts both her personal and artistic journeys as her marriage fails and she achieves enormous creative success working in latex, fiberglass, and plastics—before losing her battle with cancer at age 34. Documentarian Marcie Begleiter makes superb use of Hesse’s voluminous journals, her correspondences, and archival interviews with Serra, Andre, Dan Graham, and many others in this revealing and invigorating portrait of one of postwar America’s greatest artists.
Director Marcie Begleiter 2016 United States/Germany 108 minutes NR DCP
