Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light

PAUL WAGNER
USA, 2025
120 minutes, Color

In Person: Filmmakers Ellen and Paul Wagner, National Gallery of Art curator Sarah Greenough, and preeminent Georgia O'Keeffe scholar, Barbara Buhler Lynes

Georgia O'Keeffe is widely revered as the mother of American modernism and one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century. O'Keeffe became famous in the 1920s for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature, but she denied the widespread belief that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model and powerful advocate of women's rights. This documentary stars Claire Danes as the voice of Georgia O'Keeffe with narration by Hugh Dancy.—Various sources

Part of the ongoing Art Films and Special Screenings series, programmed in partnership with Filmfest DC 2025