Georgia O’Keefe: The Brightness of Light

Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light is a feature documentary film exploring the life and art of the most important American woman artist of the 20th century. Known as the “Mother of American Modernism,” O’Keeffe exploded on the New York art scene in the 1920s with her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. Nude photographs of O’Keeffe taken by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz, shocked the public and contributed to the perception that her paintings were sexually charged. In the 1970s, O’Keeffe, famously isolated in the New Mexico desert, emerged as an iconic role model for second wave feminists.

From director Paul Wagner, the film (1 hour 56 mins) features music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, narration by Hugh Dancy, and Claire Danes as the voice of Georgia O’Keeffe. Wagner is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning independent filmmaker, whose documentaries and dramatic features have premiered at the Sundance, Toronto, Telluride, and Rotterdam film festivals. His films broadcast in the US on PBS include Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle, about the first African American labor union; Signature: George C. Wolfe, a portrait of the controversial New York theatrical writer and director; Thoroughbred, an inside look at the world of big-time horse racing, produced with Kentucky Educational Television; Good Work: Masters of the Building Arts, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution; Out of Ireland, a sweeping history of Irish emigration to America featuring Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne; and The Stone Carvers, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary and the Emmy Award for Best Documentary Director.

Wagner’s dramatic feature Windhorse was filmed secretly inside China and in Kathmandu and released theatrically, receiving awards for Best US Feature and Best Director at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. American Cinematographer Magazine recognizes Windhorse as the first digitally-shot feature film. Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light, released last year, is his most recent feature-length documentary.

Tom Duzanica, a friend of the director and his wife, the film's producer Ellen Wagner, will give the introduction and entertain an open discussion on the film after it is shown. This will be the only the fourth screening in the world outside of the USA and the second in Asia.

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