All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic and emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin and her efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler Family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition, Witness: Against Our Vanishing.

The story talks about P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), a group Goldin founded that specifically targets museums and other arts institutions to hold the art community accountable for its collaboration with the Sackler family and its well-publicized financial support of the arts. At the core of the film are Goldin’s art works The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; The Other Side; Sisters, Saints and Sibyls; and Memory Lost.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was the winner of the Golden Lion of 2022, the top prize of Venice International Film Festival. The film is part of the official selection of the 2022 edition of the LEFFEST.