All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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Director:Laura Poitras
Cast:Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Premiere:2. November 2023
Length:122 minutes
Genre:Document

Director: Laura Poitras  •  Cast: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio, Noemi Bonazzi, Patrick Radden Keefe

All That Beauty and Killing is the epic, emotional and thoughtfully constructed story of internationally acclaimed artist and activist Nan Goldin. Directed by American Academy Award-winning Laura Poitras, the film is told through Nan Goldin's work, her private interviews, groundbreaking photographs, and rare footage of her personal struggle to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis from their drug that triggered the so-called opioid crisis. The film intertwines the artist's past with her present, and the deeply personal with the political, from P.A.I.N.'s activist campaigns at renowned art institutions to photographs of her friends and peers to her visual artwork "The Ballad of Sexual Addiction" and her legendary 1989 AIDS exhibit "Witness: Against Our Vanishing," which was censored by the NEA arts foundation. The whole story begins with Goldin's founding of the group P.A.I.N., which she intended to compromise museums that would be forced to refuse money from the Sackler family, thereby eliminating the addiction while mitigating the damage done. Inspired by the Act Up movement, the group organized protests to call attention to the hypocritical philanthropy of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, had directly caused the opioid epidemic with its successful drug OxyContin. Nan Goldin's major works of art, such as "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," "The Other Side," "Sisters, Saints and Sibyls" and "Memory Lost," play an important role in the film. " In them, Goldin sweetly and with raw tenderness captures her friendships, which, along with her sister's legacy, are the axis of all her art.

Length: 122 min

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 2. November 2023

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Director: Laura Poitras  •  Cast: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio, Noemi Bonazzi, Patrick Radden Keefe

All That Beauty and Killing is the epic, emotional and thoughtfully constructed story of internationally acclaimed artist and activist Nan Goldin. Directed by American Academy Award-winning Laura Poitras, the film is told through Nan Goldin's work, her private interviews, groundbreaking photographs, and rare footage of her personal struggle to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis from their drug that triggered the so-called opioid crisis. The film intertwines the artist's past with her present, and the deeply personal with the political, from P.A.I.N.'s activist campaigns at renowned art institutions to photographs of her friends and peers to her visual artwork "The Ballad of Sexual Addiction" and her legendary 1989 AIDS exhibit "Witness: Against Our Vanishing," which was censored by the NEA arts foundation. The whole story begins with Goldin's founding of the group P.A.I.N., which she intended to compromise museums that would be forced to refuse money from the Sackler family, thereby eliminating the addiction while mitigating the damage done. Inspired by the Act Up movement, the group organized protests to call attention to the hypocritical philanthropy of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, had directly caused the opioid epidemic with its successful drug OxyContin. Nan Goldin's major works of art, such as "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," "The Other Side," "Sisters, Saints and Sibyls" and "Memory Lost," play an important role in the film. " In them, Goldin sweetly and with raw tenderness captures her friendships, which, along with her sister's legacy, are the axis of all her art.

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 2. November 2023

Country of origin:

  • United states of America