Tora hallstrom biography

By Raphael Jose Martinez

Films about artists are often hagiographies, a way to elevate someone into some sort of canon.

The most interesting things about them are generally paved over in order to tell stories of overcoming struggle and making these people into messengers of hope. Swedish writer-director Lasse Hallström’s HILMA deftly avoids all the trappings of the banal, cliched bio-pic and gives us the story of a truly strange and powerful artist without any generic window dressing.

The film tells the story of Hilma af Klint, a queer Swedish artist who, despite predating popular abstract artists, was completely unknown until well after her death in 1944.

Johan hallström

And by choice. An iconoclastic mystic, who used her powers as a spiritual medium to paint what she saw in the metaphysical world, Klint was unknown until her first gallery showing in 1986, 42 years after her death. In 2019 her show at the Guggenhe