Screening times:
Friday, February 17, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, February 17, 9:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 18, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 18, 9:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Laura Poitras | Documentary | USA | 2022 | 117m
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional, and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, groundbreaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition, “Witness: Against Our Vanishing.”
The story begins with P.A.I.N., a group Goldin founded to shame museums into rejecting Sackler money, destigmatize addiction and promote harm reduction. Inspired by Act Up, they orchestrated protests to expose the Sacklers and the crimes of their Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin.
At the core of the film are Goldin’s art works “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”; “The Other Side”; “Sisters, Saints and Sibyls”; and “Memory Lost.” In these works, Goldin captures her friendships with beauty and raw tenderness. These friendships, and the legacy of her sister Barbara, anchor all of Goldin’s art.
Only the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice film festival, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars.
"Whatever one’s familiarity with this searing chronicler of lives on the margins, the film is riveting and essential." -Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
"What elevates this gripping, Oscar-nominated documentary by Laura Poitras is the deft meshing together of Goldin’s biographical and creative history with details of her crusade against the Sackler family."" -Wendy Ide, The Observer
Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival
Best Non-Fiction Film - New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Tickets $8.75 ($8 at the door if available).
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