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My Kid Could Paint That Not Rated, 81 min. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev June 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Part of the Sundance Institute Documentary Series |
| Is four-year-old Marla Olmstead a child prodigy? This bashful little girl from a middle-class
family in Binghamton, New York, rocketed from total obscurity to international renown and sold more than $300,000 worth of paintings.
Is Marla a genius of abstract expressionism, or an innocent victim exploited by her parents for fame and the almighty dollar? Deftly
interweaving multiple narrative threads, My Kid Could Paint That scrutinizes society's obsession with child prodigies, explores the
complex debate over what makes something art, questions the media's creation and subsequent destruction of heroes, and even examines the
ethics of documentary storytelling. Bar-Lev's film, a portrait of the artist as a young girl, is itself a fascinating work of art.
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