Five Female-Driven Films That Celebrate Women in the Arts
A pioneering abstractionist before the term was coined, Hilma af Klint’s (1862–1944) bold, colorful explorations of form, light, and color–inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the natural world–have received an enormous amount of posthumous attention. One of the first women to graduate from Stockholm’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, af Klint was a respected landscape artists and portraitist, but considered abstraction her life’s work.
Primarily forgotten until her mystical pieces were featured in a 1986 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, af Klint has become a worldwide phenomenon. The subject of a 2013 solo show at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet (Modern Art Museum) that drew over a million people, and of a record-breaking 2018 retrospective at the Guggenheim that brought in over 600,000 visitors, af Klint’s work resonates deeply with modern audiences.
Featuring interviews with familial descendents, artists, collectors, and art historians, Director Halina Dryschka’s documentary, Beyond the Visible-Hilma AF Klint, brings this visionary artist to life. The film explores af Klint’s craft, investigates her artistic erasure, and celebrates her unique talents. As Dryschka states in the press release, “It is more than time to tell the untold heroine stories.”
She says af Klint “followed her own path in life that led to a unique oeuvre. . . despite all restrictions, Hilma af Klint explored the possibilities that go beyond the visible.”
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