Laura Poitras’ documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed about photographer Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family pharmaceutical dynasty will be the center selection at the 60th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 7.
The NYFF takes place from September 30 to October 16.
Additionally, Goldin will design the festival’s 60th poster, to be revealed at a later date.
Prior to NYFF, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
In the Participant documentary, Poitras describes how Goldin stood up to the Sacklers, holding them responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic, his crusade after his own struggle with opioid addiction. She emerged from the New York underground “No Wave” to become one of the great photographers of the late 20th century. Goldin took to the forefront of the battle against the Sacklers, both as an activist in art institutions that accepted millions from the family and as an advocate for the destigmatization of drug addiction. Goldin narrates the document which also focuses on her dysfunctional suburban upbringing, the loss of her teenage sister, and her community’s fight against AIDS in the 1980s.
“I am delighted to be a part of the New York Film Festival with Nan,” said Poitras. “Her art and activism of hers are very ingrained in this city. It’s an honor to come back to the festival and doing this with Nan is very meaningful.”
“As soon as we saw Laura Poitras’ penetrating new film, we knew Nan Goldin was the right artist to design the official poster for the 60th anniversary of the New York Film Festival,” said Eugene Hernandez, executive director of the New York Film Festival. York. . “Nan’s unwavering courage in her life and work has made her one of the most compelling visual artists of our time. In designing this year’s poster, she joins a renowned list of artists who have contributed her work to the festival, beginning in 1963 with Larry Rivers and continuing with last year’s poster artist Kara Walker.”
“One fearless and empathetic gaze meets another in Laura Poitras’ extraordinary portrait of Nan Goldin,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival. “We are delighted to welcome Poitras to the festival with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, an absorbing account of Goldin’s work and activism that shows us just how much they both matter.”
The NYFF Main Slate selection committee, chaired by Lim, also includes Hernandez, Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins and Rachel Rosen.
Source: deadline.com