The film “Hilma” about the mystical artist Hilma af Klint by director Lasse Hallström is part of the series "NEW SWEDISH FILMS". Also present will be Julia Voss: The art historian and journalist is the author of a biography about Hilma af Klint.
Large, radical and ahead of her time - Hilma af Klint created more than 1000 paintings, sketches and watercolors and revolutionized painting. Even before Kandinsky or Mondrian, she painted abstract works that impressed with their colors and shapes. She was a woman of great freedom and determination, who consciously defied the rules of the male-dominated art world, and she was aware that she was ahead of her time: at the age of seventy, she decreed that her paintings should not be seen until 20 years after her death. After being overlooked and remaining unknown as a pioneer of abstract painting until after her death in 1944, an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 2019 dedicated to her work became her first major international solo exhibition. She revolutionized the art world and changed art history.
The director:
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director who first gained recognition for directing nearly all of world-renowned Swedish pop group Abba’s music videos. He later went on to direct acclaimed feature films like WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE, CHOCOLAT, HACHI: A DOG’S TALE and many more. He has been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Directing and Best Adapted Screenplay for MY LIFE AS A DOG (1988), as well as Best Directing for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (2000).
Julia Voss:
Prof. Dr. Julia Voss is a member of the Presidium of the German Historical Museum and honorary professor at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. Her biography of Hilma af Klint was on the shortlist of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 and became a bestseller. She headed the visual arts department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for ten years and received the “Sigmund Freud Prize” for Scientific Prose from the “Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung” for her study of Darwin's theory of evolution in 2009.
Screenings at Cinématte Bern:
Premiere: Monday, 25 September 19:00 (with welcome drink: 18:30)
Saturday, 30 September 18:30
Sunday, 1 October 16:00
All information and the full program:
Cinématte Restaurant Bar Kino - HILMA (cinematte.ch)
