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On Friday, the Parrish Art Museum will screen Carla Gutiérrez's film “Frida,” about artist Frida Kahlo. COURTESY PARRISH ART MUSEUM
Recently premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, “Frida,” directed by Carla Gutiérrez, is an intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
On Friday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. the Parrish Art Museum celebrates Women’s History Month with a screening of “Frida” co-presented by Cinema Tropical.
Through a cacophony of rich archival sights, music, and journal entries, viewers become immersed in Kahlo’s interior world, fears, arduous relationships and events that drove her indelible artistic creations. In the film, Gutiérrez explores the artist’s complex relationship to her own work, navigating the tension between art as commerce and painting for pleasure and self-knowledge. With reverence, thoughtfulness, and the color of pure emotion, “Frida” presents a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in a completely new way.
Tickets are $20 ($13 members, $18 seniors, $10 students) at parrishart.org. Parrish Art Museum is at 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill.
Staff Writer on Mar 11, 2024