This week’s virtual cinema is for fine art and book lovers

— from Orcas Island Film Festival —

This week we have added two enchanting and rich documentaries that will take you into the depths of timeless artworks that are gifts that keep on giving.
 
THE BOOKSELLERS is described as “a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world.” -Variety Magazine.  

BEYOND THE INVISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT, A documentary that traces the extraordinary true story of the female artist who was the true founder of abstract painting.  Swedish painter, Hilm af Klint gives us a new method for comprehending the world that reawakened our sense of awe about its limitless complexities.  “Her paintings are a revelation and like nothing that came before them.” – The Economist

Thank you for your support and enjoy the films! 

The proceeds from our virtual cinema will continue to support the Sea View Theatre, our beloved local cinema during this challenging time when their doors must remain closed to protect the community.

The Booksellers
USA | 2019 Documentary | 95min
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.

Beyond the Invisible: Hilma AF Klint
Germany | 2019 Documentary, Biography | 93min
The art world is confronted with a sensational discovery — a hundred years too late! How could it happen, that an artist who discovered abstract painting at the beginning of the 20th century remained largely unnoticed? Hilma af Klint’s first abstract painting is dated 1906, four years before that of Vassily Kandinsky. Why was she ignored? This is the first film about her life and work. It investigates the role accorded to women in art history and asks why Hilma af Klint was scandalously denied the status of a pioneer of modern art. And how this recognition is now finally taking place.

Today her exhibitions are attracting millions of people worldwide. The cinematic approach of her paintings reveals an artist who is seeking for meaning in life beyond the visible. Hilma af Klint’s clairvoyant work developed a unique visual world and more than 25,000 pages of notes reveal a boundless thinking that led into an outstanding oeuvre. Her timeless paintings cross all conventional borders and resonate with our innermost feelings today.