Documentary | Directed by Deborah Shaffer | 2019 | USA | English | 75 min.
Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor and teacher, Audrey Flack’’s often controversial 40- year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. Queen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand new direction and reveals her long-term struggles as the mother of a child with autism. Flack has something deep and genuine to communicate to the world. She is a provocateur and a rebel, an example and an inspiration. Queen of Hearts is a moving portrait of an artist who, at 88, is still testing, still experimenting, still searching.
“Art is a calling. Artists are not discovered in school. Artists do not just paint for themselves and they don’t simply paint for an audience. They paint because they have to. There is something within the artist that has to be expressed. Every creation reveals something more about the universe and about the artist.” Audrey Flack, Art & Soul: Notes on Creating
This program is co-presented by ReelAbilities Film Festival and the Boston Jewish Film Festival.