Members of the Katonah Museum of Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Hudson River Museum, Neuberger Museum, Storm King Art Center, and WFUV: Bring your membership cards and receive the JBFC member discount for two tickets to each program in this series.
In the Art on Film Series, from the Jacob Burns Center:
The Woodmans
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“Delicately constructed...and poignantly elegiac.” (Variety)
The Woodmans are all artists: Betty is a ceramicist, George a painter, and their son Charlie works in digital media. But it was their daughter Francesca, a photographer of unearthly portraits—of her own nude body and other subjects—who was the acknowledged genius. How to explain the heartbreak of her suicide at age 22? The family ponders this question and shares her transporting photographs, private journal, and videotapes in this hauntingly beautiful film.
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Q&A C. Scott Willis, former Senior Producer of Nightline, produced numerous Emmy-winning television documentaries before forming C. Scott Films. The Woodmans is his first feature documentary.
Scott Willis. 2010. 82 m. NR. US/Italy/China. Kino Lorber Films.
