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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