Call Her Applebroog
New York Film Festival Essentials
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1h 8m
Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Ida Applebroog
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (“Exposed”). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals.
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