Joan Mitchell: An Introduction
Joan Mitchell Foundation
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter
Marion Cajori
About
This elegantly edited film weaves together interviews with Mitchell and other leading painters and critics with interpretative sequences representing earlier chapters in Mitchell’s life—while letting her paintings dominate the film. Directed by Marion Cajori, the film premiered in 1992, and in 2022 the Joan Mitchell Foundation funded a 4K digital film restoration.
The Foundation would like to thank the following individuals for their support in the restoration: Isabel Cajori Jay; Ken Kobland; Jason Crump and Jack Rizzo at Metro Post; Amy Sloper and Mark Johnson at the Harvard Film Archive.
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Video
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Produced by Christian Blackwood, Marion Cajori. © The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation.
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Related Materials
"Review/Film; Cinematic Portrait Of the Life Of an Artist"
Review of the film by Steven Holder, New York Times, 1993
More about filmmaker Marion Cajori
Internet Movie Database
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The film is available for screenings at nonprofits.
