Call Her Applebroog (2016)

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New Yorkbased artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter Beth B Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland Applebroog now in her 80s looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings as well as her private journals With her daughters encouragement she investigates the stranger that is her former self a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art As Beth B finds a deeper understanding of her mother as a human being Applebroog shares a newfound appreciation for her own provocative work