Museum Cinema / 10✕Dix, 2011
The finest films on art and culture will be screened, after a short lecture by the Museum’s curators.
Admission to the Museum’s exhibitions is included in the film ticket, during the Museum’s opening hours.
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10✕Dix, 2011 | Dir. Jennifer Alleyn | Canada | English, French, and German, Hebrew subtitles | 56 minutes
Introduction: Noa Rosenberg, Curator of Modern Art
The German painter Otto Dix is at the heart of this film, which follows the creation of the first North American exhibition dedicated to celebrating his work (held at the Museum of Modern Art in Montreal). The exhibition begins with World War I, in which Dix served and from which he emerged deeply traumatized—a war that influenced him throughout his life.
The film traces key episodes in Dix’s biography: his family, his unofficial second family (Dix maintained a long-term extramarital relationship with another woman, with whom he had a daughter), friendships, career, and techniques—on the one hand. On the other, it confronts both World War I and World War II, and above all, the 20th century itself, of which Dix is considered one of the most uncompromising and prominent artistic chroniclers.