Eva Hesse
Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground-breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960's.
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 June 1972, Southfield, Michigan, USA
26 August 1977, London, England, UK
June 03, 2016
It's a measure of Begleiter's documentary skills and her commitment to Hesse's work and vivid presence that such scant materials have resulted in a portrait that is so lively, intelligent, and moving.
August 26, 2016
"Eva Hesse" is a remarkable film about an even more remarkable artist, a woman who playfully and resolutely turned the world of sculpture inside out.
May 12, 2016
Hesse's work has taken its place as a seminal part of 20th-century art, and this indispensable film will be shining a light on it, and her, for a long time to come.
April 29, 2016
A superb documentary on a gifted and eccentric female artist who hit her high stride in the 1960s.
August 25, 2016
Aside from her laudable work ethos, Hesse never comes across as an interesting documentary subject.
March 03, 2017
Overstuffed with biographical details and taking-head interviews with friends and hangers-on, it's over-didactic and dull.
July 28, 2016
Unique and satisfying ...
June 07, 2016
Moving, incisive... chronicles the short life and decade-long career of the German-American sculptor and denizen of the 1960s art world with impressive command of both the scene Hesse found herself in, as well as the methods that led to [her] artwork.
April 26, 2016
Hesse's interest was more a matter of process than product. Begleiter's movie picks up the next two sentences to give Hesse the poignant existential credo that serves as her last word. "Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter."
May 12, 2016
A vibrant, affecting piece of filmmaking that's sure to widen Hesse's following.
April 27, 2016
Entertaining, informative and beautifully rendered documentary homage to the late-20th-century artist [Eva Hesse].
June 09, 2016
Marcie Begleiter directed this warm documentary about the short, extraordinary life of the title artist, who died at age 34 of a brain tumor.
