October 4: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed + intro

In 2022 Laura Poitras was Guest of Honor at IDFA, together with the Dutch premiere of her documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed about activist and artist. From October 7 to January 28 Nan Goldin’s solo exhibition This Will Not End Well can be seen at the  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Together we will bring this film back to the cinema as part of the Under Construction program. Prior to the screening Maan Meelker will give an introduction to the film.

United States - 2022 - Laura Poitras - 122 min.

Activist Nan Goldin and artist Nan Goldin are inextricably bound up with one another in this candid documentary on the groundbreaking American photographer. Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras interviews Goldin about her life and what drives her. Poitras illustrates Goldin’s personal narrative with photographs and footage of the protests she has organized.

Goldin left home at a young age, and had her breakthrough as a photographer with The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a series of intimate snapshots featuring her friends and herself. Nowadays, she devotes her energies to her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), which stands up for people addicted to painkillers and fights the producers of these medications, the Sacklers. This family has made billions of dollars from sales of OxyContin, contributing to the opioid crisis in the US.

Goldin speaks from experience: she was prescribed the painkiller following an operation, and was immediately hooked. Back then, she only knew the Sacklers as the philanthropists who sponsored leading museums—museums in which her own work was on display.

• Venue: IDFA Vondelparkpaviljoen, Vondelpark 3 in Amsterdam. Find here all info about the venue’s accessibility.
• Time: 7.30 PM - 10.15 PM
• Ticket price: Regular: € 12,00.  CJP and Stadspas holders: € 9,00. Students: € 6,00.
• The film is English spoken with Dutch subtitles. The introduction is in Dutch.