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United States 2024, 100 min, English and Polish, Hebrew & English subtitles

“Comics are the art of compression,” Art Spiegelman once said, urging us to see in this visual medium an endless fount of detail: graphic, bizarre, imaginative, and profoundly human. This comprehensive and insightful portrait of the gifted and anarchic illustrator meticulously chronicles his life and darkly humorous work, from the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards and his later cartoons in The New Yorker to the lasting fame he achieved with the graphic novel MAUS, where he adapted his parents’ Holocaust survival story into a universal anti-fascist allegory featuring cats and mice. Perfectly mirroring its subject, the documentary is accessible, entertaining, and offers a profound exploration of reality, capturing it in a way only comics can.

Previous Festivals: DOC NYC

Screening Schedule:
  • Sat 24.05 19:00, Cinematheque 1 Filmmaker Present Purchase
  • Sat 31.05 10:00, Tel Aviv Museum - Assia Auditorium Filmmaker Present Purchase

Molly Bernstein directed Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, an Entertainment Weekly top 10 film that aired on American Masters. She also directed An Art That Nature Makes and The Show’s The Thing, and editor on Turn Every Page. She teaches at UNC School of Arts.

Philip Dolin has produced and directed over 100 films on art, architecture, dance, and the environment. He produced hip-hop videos in the ’90s and later worked on Deceptive Practice, An Art That Nature Makes, and The Show’s The Thing, which Hollywood Reporter called “essential viewing.”

Production: Alicia Sams, Sam Jinishian
Production Company: Particle Productions, Pollyanna Productions
Editing: Molly Bernstein
Cinematography: Nausheen Dadabhoy, Roger Grange, Philip Dolin
Sound Design: Fiona McBain, Adam D Gold, Ben Posnack, Mark Mandler, Nikola Chapelle, Peter Miller, Rich Pooler, Tom Williams
Music: Michael Leonhart

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  • Sat 24.05 19:00, Cinematheque 1 Filmmaker Present Purchase
  • Sat 31.05 10:00, Tel Aviv Museum - Assia Auditorium Filmmaker Present Purchase
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Screening Schedule:
  • Sat 24.05 19:00, Cinematheque 1 Filmmaker Present Purchase
  • Sat 31.05 10:00, Tel Aviv Museum - Assia Auditorium Filmmaker Present Purchase
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