Nine years to film a genius nobody's heard of—obsession becomes art becomes obsession.
Beth Moore-Love is perhaps the greatest living artist working in America today. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. She is a national treasure and yet, she is virtually unknown. Filmmaker Larry Wessel is determined to change that with his nine year labor of love.
Direction
Wessel's nine-year dedication mirrors his subject's obsessive practice.
Production
DIY ethos that somehow feels exactly right for underground art.
Director
Larry Wessel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moore-Love worked as a medical illustrator before her fine art career, explaining the surgical precision in her grotesque figurative paintings.
The film quietly interrogates who gets to be a 'national treasure'—institutional validation vs. pure artistic merit.
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