Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras' documentary 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' is a portrait of artist and activist Nan Goldin, her photography and personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis.
When Goldin, in recovery from her own scary OxyContin addiction, learned that the wealthy Sackler family, owners of the drug’s maker, Purdue Pharma, were all over her world as art benefactors, she created PAIN as an ACTUP-inspired group aimed at advocating for more treatment funding from opioid profits, and shaming museums bearing the Sackler name into refusing the family’s reputation-washing money.
Starting in 2018, she spearheaded “die-ins” inside the Met and the Guggenheim, with flung pill bottles, coruscating banners , shouts , and arrayed bodies signifying the drug’s deathly toll.
Her spare, vivid, candid voice-over guides us through her birth as an artist, which begins in a home racked by secrets and tragedy surrounding the suicide of her older sister Barbara, a figure whose rebellious streak in a stifling middle-class existence become a guiding force for the younger, shyer Goldin as she navigated adulthood.
Goldin’s descriptions of Bowery scrappiness, nocturnal multi-tasking, and underground socializing bring that street-romantic bohemia alive, as do remembrances of friends such as actress/writer Cookie Mueller , the political awakening from her time bartending for Tin Pan Alley owner Maggie Smith, and in the late ‘80s curating the controversial multidisciplinary AIDS-themed gallery show “Witnesses.”
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