SCREENING TIME:
6PM DOORS
7PM SCREENING BEGINS
9PM END
FILM AND DETAILS:
Eva Hesse, A film by Marcie Begleiter, Director, Writer, Producer
The Director will be present to introduce the film and be available for a Q & A following
the film.
Duration: I hour 48 minutes
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aov6R8qmf10
Description:
Eva Hesse, a documentary that explores the journey of an extraordinary woman; an artist whose life was in dynamic interplay with the development of her ground-breaking work. The story takes place in the excitement of 1960's NY; the downtown art scene with the creative community, in their studios and on the streets plays a major role as does the burgeoning feminist movement. The film also explores her youth as a Jew in 1930's Germany, a country she returned to in 1964 to face her past and forge her future. A poignant look at a profoundly talented artist whose career, as it was beginning, ended in both tragedy and triumph. I selected this film because Eva Hesse had a profound effect on my life as an artist. She was a role model to me and countless other women because she broke down so many doors for all of us.
Introduction for Marcie
Marcie Begleiter, the director and producer of Eva Hesse, is a California-based artist working in photography, drawing,
ceramics and film. The documentary premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2015 and was broadcast on PBS’ American
Masters in 2018. It also received world-wide theatrical distribution and has screened at major art museums in Europe and Asia.
Begleiter’s work has been supported by grants from the NEA, LACES, the Foundation for Art Resources and Germany's
Hamburger Kunsthalle. Recent group shows include exhibits at the CICA Museum in Seoul, the Praxis Center of Art in
Minneapolis, and the University of Santa Barbara. Her solo show “What Will Remain: Recent Drawings and Photographs, was presented at the Cambria Center for the Arts in 2022.
In academia she was the Founding Director of the Creative Action/Integrated Learning Program at Otis College of Art, Associate Professor in the Graduate Department of Film at Art Center and on faculty at the International Filmschule in Köln, Germany. She is based in Los Angeles and Los Osos, CA.
