Call Her Applebroog

Not out to deliver a comprehensive biography. Instead...achieves a vivid snapshot of a still-vital artist late in a still-purposeful life.
-- Glenn Kenny, New York Times

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Call Her Applebroog


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This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter’s encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art. As Beth B finds a deeper understanding of her mother as a human being, Applebroog shares a newfound appreciation for her own provocative work. –MoMA Doc Fortnight
Not Rated
Genre
Culture Vulture, Documentary
Runtime
70
Language
English
Director
Beth B
Cast
Ida Applebroog
FEATURED REVIEW
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

Once upon a time — the punk-bruised late Seventies — there was a downtown No Wave indie scene, and Beth B was its eight-millimeter Frida (at first alongside her husband, Scott B), pioneering an anti-professional aesthetic of exuberantly bad behavior, no-rent ambiance, soundtrack dissonance ...

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