BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT (2019) & CHASING PORTRAITS (2018)

Why we picked it

BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT (2019) by Halina Dryschka “It’s more than worth a look — not only for its careful illumination of the artist’s biography, plus an abundant representation of her luminous paintings, but for the way in which it exposes the obstacles af Klint and her legacy faced. “ Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times “It seems strange to be discussing such matters—from the occult, to the nature of universe, to sexism—within the context of a documentary that focuses on an obscure artist whose oeuvre is missing large sections, whose biography has a few gaps in it, and whose place in the history of art went overlooked until only a few years ago.” Mark Dujsik, Mark Reviews Movies “But this is also a deeply engaging portrait of a woman who lived life on her own terms at a time when options for women were even more limited than they are now; who understood and seems to have accepted — albeit perhaps reluctantly — that her work would be ignored; who looked at the grea