green turns brown

super 8, experimental doc
2021



dir. joie estrella horwitz
sound design + score sarah ibrahim

screenings
Footprints Flaherty
SF DocFest
DOK Leipzig

green turns brown

super 8, experimental doc
2021



Green Turns Brown is a eulogy to the artist Luchita Hurtado, whose work was discovered at the age of 97 in a storage unit in San Bernardino, California, and immediately gained notoriety during the final years of her life. Shot several months before the artist's passing, the Super 8 film explores Luchita’s oscillation between visibility and invisibility as a female painter mirrored by her observations of duality within the natural world. Green Turns Brown is Hurtado’s final contemplation of what the artist called, "the border between life and death".