Film Screening of Eva Hesse Followed by Q+A with the Filmmaker
Register here: $10 general, $8 seniors + students, free for members
In conjunction with Enough Already, MoCA\CT is hosting a screening of Marcie Begleiter’s 2016 documentary film, Eva Hesse. This bold exhibition expresses the collectors’ personal interest in finding emergent artistic voices and powerful artistic statements that speak to prominent social issues of the day, including those relating to LGBTQ+ communities and reproductive rights. All major mediums are included: paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and textiles. Themes range from humorous and irreverent to thought-provoking.
This film speaks on Eva Hesse, a German born American artist who was seen as central to the New York art scene in the 60s going into the 70s when she passed away. With this film, we will dive into the story of Hesse, her trials, accomplishments and how her story and legacy surpasses her still to this day.
The audience will get a better understanding of Hesse and get a deeper look into the creative community of New York and Germany in the 1960s.
Throughout the documentary there are interviews from celebrated artists such as Richard Serra, Robert and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Dan Graham, Nancy Holt, Carl Andre, Hesse’s husband Tom Doyle and her friend + writer Lucy Lippard who speak on Hesse’s works, her life and the 60s. Alongside their interviews and many others, the trajectory of this film is covered by Hesse’s journals.
Following the screening, there will be a Q+A with the documentary filmmaker, Marcie Begleiter through zoom. We are excited to hear from the creator of this film—join us as we learn more about Eva Hesse.
About Marcie Begleiter:
Marcie Begleiter is a California-based filmmaker and artist. Her current project is Chimera: The Future of Nature, a series of video animations, photographs and sculptures envision dramatic and unpredictable futures of flora and fungi. Chimera Haiku, one of the films, has been selected for numerous exhibitions and festivals including Quantum Intimacies at the Millennium Film Workshop in New York, the Culture and Nature Festival in Copenhagen, the Negotiated Intelligence Pavilion at the 7th International Wrong Biennale and the Fotogenia Film Festival in Mexico City, all in 2025.
Her projects have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Foundation for Art Resources and Germany’s Hamburger Kunsthalle. In 2024 she curated Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art at Wönzimer Gallery, LA, which was part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time “Art & Science Collide” program. Her photography has been featured at the CICA Museum in Seoul, Korea, the Center for Contemporary Art in Orange County, The Praxis Center for Photography in Minneapolis, and UC Santa Barbara. Residencies include the Banff Center for the Arts, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Cascade Head, Oregon and Studio Kura on Kyushu Island, Japan where she is continuing the Chimera series at Mount Aso, the country’s largest active volcano.
In 2015 The Whitney Museum premiered her film, Eva Hesse. The feature documentary, which she directed and produced, is a portrait of the 1960s artist’s life and work and after a theatrical run in North America and Europe was broadcast on PBS’ American Masters in 2018. In academia she was Founding Director of the Integrated Learning Program at Otis College of Art, Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design and on the founding faculty of the International Filmschule in Köln, Germany.
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