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Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

Dates with showtimes for Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
  • Thu, Mar 13

Director: Molly Bernstein, Philip Dolin Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 2025

Starring: Art Spiegelman

Join us for a Q&A following the film with co-director and editor Molly Bernstein!

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse! explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, the story of his parents’ survival of the Holocaust and his own struggle to come to terms with this legacy.

Molly Bernstein is the director and producer of Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, a documentary that premiered at the New York Film Festival and received a wide theatrical release. The film was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s top 10 films of 2013 and aired on the PBS series American Masters. She also directed An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell, which played in over 20 theaters nationwide and was released on DVD by Kino Lorber. Bernstein has had an extensive career as an editor with credits including the 2009 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, also featured on the American Masters series. She has recently produced and directed many short films with Particle Productions on various subjects such as contemporary artists and art collectors around the world for the James Cohan Gallery, VIP Art Fair and Christie’s. Most recently, she produced and directed The Show’s The Thing: The Legendary Promoters of Rock, a feature documentary about the creation of the live rock show in the late 60’s and 70’s. This film premiered at DOC NYC

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