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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThe film\u2014a methodical and bewitching look at the well-hewn Colorado art family, the Woodmans\u2014tracks the short and unheralded life of daughter and sister, Francesca Woodman. In the late 80s, Woodman took the photography world by storm with elaborately-manipulated nude pictures of herself. The kicker, of course, is she didn't live to see any of the success.\n\nSteeped in her family's admirably blue-collar dedication to their respective art forms, she started taking photos in her early teens and soon her preoccupation with photographing herself\u2014disrobed, her face often blurred\u2014took hold. Her work, however, never gained traction. She had some disparate shows in underground art spaces before becoming so unraveled by the elusiveness of recognition that she took her own life by jumping from the roof of her New York loft apartment in 1981 at the age of 22.\n\nDirector C. Scott Willis tells the story through those most affected by it\u2014Francesca's jowly and tender father, the painter George Woodman; her ceramicist mother Betty, video-artist brother Charles, and a small collection of family friends. Interspersed with Francesca's photographs, later experimental videos, and entries from her journals, Willis weaves both the story of an artist come undone and a family's coolly examined complicity in it. For photography neophytes, Woodman's pictures will be a revelation. But even more, you'll be struck by how Francesca's death ultimately recedes behind questions of guilt (an issue, the director seems to suggest, should weigh heavily on Betty), professional jealously (\"She killed herself five days before my showing at the Guggenheim,\" George ruminates) and the odd quality of a family whose undeniable love for one another was founded in their respect for each other's art. Willis points to the precarious life of an artist and the commitment that shaped\u2014for better or worse\u2014one family's life."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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