USA/UK
Feature Documentary
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Cinematographers: Matt Boyd, Nelson Hume, Bill Turnley
Composers: The Rondo Brothers
Featuring: Marla Olmstead
This compelling and emotional documentary - chronicling the rise, fall, and sort of rise again of four-year-old, art prodigy, Marla Olmstead, whose abstract paintings became the toast of the New York art world until a television exposé cast doubt on their authenticity - largely sticks to the did she/didn’t she question, whilst rather ignoring the more interesting question of even if she did paint them, so what? (Surely a painting made without any sort of intellectual contextualisation, something that can only come with an adult mind, is nothing more than a series of random marks on a piece of canvas.) Iain.Stott
Feature Documentary
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Cinematographers: Matt Boyd, Nelson Hume, Bill Turnley
Composers: The Rondo Brothers
Featuring: Marla Olmstead
This compelling and emotional documentary - chronicling the rise, fall, and sort of rise again of four-year-old, art prodigy, Marla Olmstead, whose abstract paintings became the toast of the New York art world until a television exposé cast doubt on their authenticity - largely sticks to the did she/didn’t she question, whilst rather ignoring the more interesting question of even if she did paint them, so what? (Surely a painting made without any sort of intellectual contextualisation, something that can only come with an adult mind, is nothing more than a series of random marks on a piece of canvas.) Iain.Stott
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