Presented by the San Francisco Film Society Youth Education Program in partnership with the M.H. de Young Museum

Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary served as the kickoff for a day of close examination of the modern art world. The film follows a four-year-old girl hailed—and then doubted—as a prodigy of abstract impressionist painting. After the film an intense discussion took place with questions about the objectivity of filmmaking and journalism and the identification of modern art. Bar-Lev encouraged the students to become active viewers of both film and traditional visual art, and even to question his own work that they had just viewed. The discussion continued with a slide presentation by a museum representative about the next part of the students’ day, a guided tour through the museum’s Warhol Live exhibit.