A painter who lived harder than she painted — and she painted HARD.
Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter. Shedding fresh light on her place in Canadian art history, director Michael Ostroff chronicles the life of this remarkable creative spirit who threw herself into painting, left-wing politics and love affairs with equal enthusiasm.
Direction
Ostroff treats obscurity as mystery worth solving, not footnote.
Production
Gorgeous restoration of MacLeod's vibrant, almost violent canvases.
Director
Michael Ostroff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
MacLeod was the only Canadian invited to MoMA's 1942 'Artists in Exile' show — yet she's rarely in Canadian curricula.
Director Ostroff spent seven years tracking down her scattered works in attics and basements across North America.
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