Marsha Gordon

Marsha Gordon is a Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, a past Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She is the author of numerous books and articles, and co-director of three award-winning short documentaries, Nesting (2020), All the Possibilities… (2019), and Rendered Small (2017). Her latest book is Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (2023).

This Beautiful Vision, The Artistry of Alexander Bogardy will be a non-narrative short documentary film celebrating the unique style and colorful life of Hungarian-born outsider artist Alexander Bogardy. The visual elements of This Beautiful Vision will be drawn entirely from Bogardy’s paintings (produced from the mid 1950s thorough the mid 1980s) and notebooks, and the audio will derive from archival recordings in which he discusses his passions and creative work.