Grandma Moses (film)

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Movie
Original title Grandma Moses
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 22 minutes
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Director Jerome Hill
script Archibald MacLeish
production Jerome Hill
music Hugh Martin
camera Erica Anderson

Grandma Moses is an American short film directed by Jerome Hill and released on October 23, 1950.

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The film portrays Grandma Moses , who started painting at the age of 70, after many years as a farmer's wife. First, narrator Archibald MacLeish presents the life stages of Grandma Moses. The film is both a portrait of an old lady as an artist ("Portrait of the old lady as an artist") and a portrait of an artist as an American ("Portrait of the artist as an American"). Women on the farm have many tasks: they take care of the family, the household and the animals. Every season brings new tasks, also in the fields. Grandma Moses shows photos of her family. She grew up in the Cambridge Valley, which can also be seen in most of her paintings. Other pictures show the Shenandoah Valley , where she lived for a long time, gave birth to ten children and buried five of them. The paintings are images of her childhood, painting is natural for her, because she paints what she knows or what she remembers. The pictures are full of understanding and measure, just as she herself has always remained down-to-earth. She was never afraid and so the characters in her pictures are only godly. Some details of her paintings are shown. In a country where women can age in fearlessness and beauty, it's not strange that they can end up becoming artists - because fearlessness and beauty are the fundamentals of any artist, the narrator says.

Awards

Grandma Moses was nominated in 1951 for an Oscar in the category " Best Short Film (two film roles) ", but could not prevail against In the Valley of the Beavers .

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