She built an art empire in heels and nobody knows her name.
Sara Hildén was maybe an artist, from Tampere, or maybe a patron? A business woman? Most of the Finnish people add her name into Sara Hildén art gallery, but her story included much more.
Direction
Andell's patient excavation of a deliberately buried story.
Editing
Juxtaposing official silence with Hildén's own surviving voice.
Director
Pia Andell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sara Hildén Foundation still controls one of Finland's most significant modern art collections, yet her 1950s business negotiations with male industrialists remain almost entirely undocumented by design.
Director Pia Andell spent three years accessing private archives that institutions had previously denied existed, revealing how 'patron' became a diminutive replacement for 'founder.'
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