Still from The Ballad of Maria Lassnig (Maria Lassnig Kantate) . Still from Art Education. © Maria Lassnig Foundation, courtesy sixpackfilm.
Maria Lassnig’s figurative paintings, whose jewel-like and pastel hues belie the heavy psychological states of her self-portraits and subject matter, were late to gain the attention they deserved from the art world. But even less attention was given to her experimental film practice, which she nurtured alongside her paintings throughout her career.
These moving image works, as well as a new posthumous biopic, will be the focus of the prestigious Berlinale film festival, which opens its 74th edition in the German capital this month. Anja Salomonowitz’s feature-length biographic film on Lassnig, called Sleeping with a Tiger (2024), will premiere in Berlin on February 17.
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