Acute Misfortune (Thomas M. Wright, 2018)
MA15+ | 91 Mins | 2018 | DCP | AUS | D: Thomas M. Wright
Acute Misfortune details the final years of controversial, Archibald Prize-winning artist Adam Cullen, as portrayed by Australian journalist and author Erik Jensen, the young man Cullen recruited as his biographer. The intense and perilous relationship between the two pushes the boundaries between subject and author, delineations further blurred in Wright’s screen adaption (co-written with Jensen).
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Erik Jensen, Schwartz Media Editor-in-Chief and author of the 2014 biography Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen.
‘…a haunting, format-flouting portrait-within-a-portrait of the art-world enfant terrible’ –Variety
The details
What: Acute Misfortune screening + Q&A with Erik Jensen
When: Saturday 16 March at 2pm
Where: NFSA Canberra (Arc Cinema)
Cost: $17–20. Book tickets
