Apolonia, Apolonia

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob met French artist Apolonia Sokol in 2009, the latter appeared to have had a storybook life in the arts, having been born into an underground Parisian theatre group, raised within a community of artists and educated in her twenties at the prestigious Beaux-Arts de Paris.

But as Glob continued filming her friend while Apolonia sought her place in the art world, a far more complex story emerged. Thirteen years on, the women continue to reflect on each other’s paths in this captivating enquiry into art, love, sexuality, motherhood and representation. They also consider how women can succeed without compromising who they are at heart, in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism and war.

PRESENTED BY Vintage Bazaar TICKETS CREDITS Director Lea Glob Producer Sidsel Lønvig Siersted Protagonist Apolonia Sokol Duration 116 mins “Apolonia, Apolonia observes how art isn’t a quick and dirty process, but rather something that evolves through time and experience”.

Pat Mullen, POV “An astonishing art world documentary, probably the best of its kind since Exit Through the Gift Shop (about Banksie).”

Stephen Silver, The SS Ben Hect “Director Lea Glob was gifted with the opportunity to follow the life of an esteemed artist in the making, to watch them create themselves in real time over years and realize that she is asking it of herself (and the price to be paid for it), as well.”

Joshua Starnes, Firing The Cannon Filmmaker Lea Glob Graduated as a director from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011 with the short film MEETING MY FATHER- KASPER TOPHAT about the directors’ involuntary journey into a stranger than fiction story of her own origins.

Glob co-directed OLMO & THE SEAGULL with Petra Costa in 2014. It premiered at Locarno where it won the Young Jury Prize. It also won the Best Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX,