Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter Arthouse Films 016 (DVD)

A documentary portrait of painter Joan Mitchell (1926–1992), one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism, tracing her time in New York, where she associated with Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston alongside poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery, and her later years in Paris among a circle including Pierre Matisse, Samuel Beckett, and Alberto Giacometti. Interweaves interviews with Mitchell and fellow painters and critics with extended footage of her paintings. Directed by Marion Cajori; premiered in 1992 and won the Whitney Pratt Grand Prize at the Montreal International Festival for Films on Art and the Gold Plaque Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. This DVD edition includes a 40-page booklet from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

DETAILS

• Condition: New
• Director: Marion Cajori
• Producers: Christian Blackwood, Marion Cajori
• Distributor: Arthouse Films
• Release year: 1992 (film), DVD release 2010
• Runtime: 58 minutes
• Format: DVD, NTSC, all regions, Dolby Digital Stereo
• Rating: Not Rated
• Language: English
• Includes: 40-page booklet produced by the Joan Mitchell Foundation