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Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization. EVA HESSE, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists (among them, Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham) who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality. Art critic Arthur Danto has written that her work is: “full of life, of eros, even of comedy… Each piece vibrates with originality and mischief.” The documentary captures these qualities, but also the psychic struggles of an artist who, in the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, was one of the few women to make work that was taken seriously in a field dominated by male pop artists and minimalists. -Karen Cooper, Film Forum
Original Release
04/27/2016
US Release
04/27/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Selma Blair | Eva Hesse / Eva Hesse (voice) |
Bob Balaban | Wilhelm Hesse / Wilhelm Hesse (voice) |
Patrick Kennedy | Sol Lewitt / Sol Lewitt (voice) |
Julia-Maria Kohler | Eva Hesse |
Ernst August Schepmann | Wilhelm Hesse |
Michael Che Koch | Sol Lewitt |
Tom Doyle | Self |
Werner Nekes | Self |
Eva Hesse | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Selma Blair | Eva Hesse / Eva Hesse (voice) |
Bob Balaban | Wilhelm Hesse / Wilhelm Hesse (voice) |
Patrick Kennedy | Sol Lewitt / Sol Lewitt (voice) |
Julia-Maria Kohler | Eva Hesse |
Ernst August Schepmann | Wilhelm Hesse |
Michael Che Koch | Sol Lewitt |
Tom Doyle | Self |
Werner Nekes | Self |
Eva Hesse | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Lawrence Benenson | Executive Producer |
Marcie Begleiter | Producer |
Michael P. Aust | Producer |
Brian David Cange | Producer |
Louise Rosen | Producer |
Karen S. Shapiro | Producer |