Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World - Movie

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sasha Waters
Documentary : 91’ / Art & Artists, Ecology, Lesbian, Portrait

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world.

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

November 04 | 18h00 | Casa Comum (Reitoria da Universidade do Porto)

Sections: QP - Queer Focus
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/ Details

Year: 2026

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: english

With: Mary Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Welles, Lucy Dacus, Norman Mailer, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi

/ Direction

Sasha Waters

USA

A moving image artist trained in photography and 16mm cinema, the films of Sasha Waters pursue ecstatic, metaphorical realism from the relations and materials of ordinary life. Her 2018 feature “Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable” won a Special Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival, and her 2024 short “Ghost Protists” had its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is a 2026-2027 recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and a Professor of Film at VCU’s School of the Arts in Richmond, VA.