A new documentary about the life and work of artist Art Spiegelman will get its premier screening in New Jersey March 5 at Stockton University.
“Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse” will be shown at 6 p.m. in the L-112 lecture hall at Stockton’s Galloway campus. The screening is sponsored by the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center.
Directed by Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin, the film won the Metropolis Grand Jury Prize at the DOC NYC film festival in 2024, which is the largest film festival for documentaries in the country.
The film details how the artist and cartoonist rocked the world when he transposed his parents into mice to tell their Holocaust survival story in his Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel “Maus.” Both volumes of “Maus” have been voted by the New York Public Library as one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
Spiegelman is also known for several provocative covers for “The New Yorker” magazine where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993 to 2003. With his wife, Françoise Mouly, Spiegelman published and edited the acclaimed and influential comics magazine “RAW” from 1980-1991, where “Maus” was first serialized.
The screening is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required by emailing hrc@stockton.edu or calling 609-652-4699.
Watch the trailer
