Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint

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Beyond the Visible: Hilda af Klint presented by The Kate & Florence Griswold Museum

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary,
trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse, before her long-delayed rediscovery. Director Halina Dryschka’s dazzling, course correcting documentary describes not only the life and craft of af Klint, but also the process of her mischaracterization and erasure by both a patriarchal narrative of artistic progress and capitalistic determination of artistic value.    

Film Length: 93 minutes