Join our virtual screening of Halina Dyrschka’s newly released documentary Beyond The Visible : Hilma Af Klint and online Q&A between the director and scholar of occult, esoteric and marginal cultures, Amy Hale!
[Image Description: Poster for the documentary film Beyond The Visible: Hilma Af Klint. The poster is split in the middle between a black and white photograph of the artist sitting in her studio looking at the camera and a colour photograph of two of her paintings in a museum. The title of the film is written in the middle of the poster and some positive critics of the film appear on the right hand side.]
Online screening available from 20th of October until 15th of November.
Q&A on 30th of October at 7.30 pm.
The Q&A will be online, ticket holders will be emailed a link prior to the event to attend.
For concessions please email us at popculture@thehorsehospital.com; we will send you a 50% discount code upon receipt of a proof of eligibility (low income / students / seniors / disability).
Unfortunately we can not provide BSL for this event.
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Directed by Halina Dyrschka / Documentary / 93 min
Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colourful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting.
The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse.
Her work inspired some most celebrated contemporary artists like Joseph Albers, Paul Klee, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Mondrian, Kandinsky…
Q&A between Halina Dyrschka and Amy Hale - discussing, among other things the many stylistic and lifestyle comparisons between Hilma af Klint and other women painters like Ithell Colquhoun, Georgiana Houghton and Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn who were all working with similar techniques and principles, and what this might mean for the women's history of abstraction.
Amy Hale is an Atlanta based Anthropologist and Folklorist specializing in modern Cornwall and contemporary esoteric history and culture. She has published academic and popular articles on topics such as modern Druidry, Cornish ethnonationalism, Arthurian lore, color theory, occult aesthetics, and extremist politics in modern Paganism. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and her biography of Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, is available from Strange Attractor Press. She is also the editor of the forthcoming Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (Palgrave Macmillan). Other writings can be found at her Medium site https://medium.com/@amyhale93 and her website www.amyhale.me.
Halina Dyrschka was born in Berlin, Germany and is active as a director and producer. After studying acting, classical singing and film production she founded the company AMBROSIA FILM in Berlin. Her first film as a director the short film “9andahalf’s Goodbye” was shown at over 40 film festivals worldwide and has won several awards. BEYOND THE VISIBLE – HILMA AF KLINT marks her directorial feature documentary debut and is the first and only film on the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint.
“The Swan No. 17” by Hilma af Klint © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk
[Image Description: Abstract square painting by Hilma Af Klint with a red background, and a circle in the middle. The circle is split in two down the middle. The left part of the circle comprises a white border and black semi-circle. The right part of the circle comprises a blue border, a yellow border within and a red smaller half circle.]