The Woodmans

The Woodmans Takes Top Doc Prize at Tribeca

May 2, 2010

The Woodmans won the top prize at this years Tribeca Film Festival.

Francesca Woodman is an artist about whom I have long hoped to do a much more intensive investigation (of her work), given where it sits in my own tendency to make metaphoric symbolist connections that struck me at the time — that is, 1978-81, that last year the one of Francescas suicide. I would situate her alongside roughly coeval work by Carolee Schneemann and late Hannah Wilke for revolutions in fabric draped martyrdom and refusal. Rome was for Francesca a breakthrough into brilliance. Francescas mother Betty Woodman continues to be a brilliant ceramist. George Woodman took up photography long after Francescas suicide. Below, images from the film and the trailer.

The Woodmans

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David D'Arcy is an internationally known film critic and art reviewer. He writes for The National and Screen International online, is a U.S. correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a contributing editor to Art&Auction.