Documentary | Directed by Catherine Gund | 2020 | USA | English | 92 min.
The film opens with Agnes “Aggie” Gund’s selling Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund. The proceeds from one of the highest grossing artworks ever sold fuel a monumental effort to reform the American criminal justice system and end mass incarceration. The film captures Aggie as a true maverick, who demonstrates the unique role and potential of collectors and benefactors to use art to fight injustice. This is Catherine Gund’s deeply affectionate paean to her mother that serves to tell the story of a conventional divorcee who enacts necessary change in an unconventional way.
“Catherine Gund’s Aggie is both a celebration of an extraordinary woman and a call to arms for the viewer to think about how they too can enact change.” Orla Smith, Seventh Row
This program is co-presented by the Boston Center for the Arts.