The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
LONDON PREMIERE
Filmmaker: Pietra Brettkelly
Featuring Vanessa Beecroft
New Zealand / 2007 / 95 mins
Awards: World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance
ICA Cinema 1 Mon 9 Mar 8.30pm
This Sundance winning “poetic fusion" (Variety) follows internationally acclaimed New York conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft as she treads the path of Madonna and Angelina Jolie attempting to adopt Sudanese twins.
"A stunning film" (NOW magazine). “Brutally honest, remarkably self-critical“ (LA Times), Brettkelly expertly reveals Vanessa Beecroft's extraordinary creative process, her struggle with depression, volatile relationship with her husband, and her love for the twins.
Pietra Brettkelly
Pietra Brettkelly is a prolific documentary-maker whose work includes Beauty Will Save the World, about Libya’s first ever beauty pageant featuring extraordinary footage of Colonel Gadaffi, which screened at the AFI Film Festival, HotDocs and IDFA. She lives in New Zealand.
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