"Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey" - Full Movie

Описание: (30 minutes) In 1956, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of her now-famous bottle village. Her first building was just a small structure to house her collection of 17,000 commemorative pencils. The result of 25 years of work is 15 buildings which now make up the glittering visionary environment. In this film, Grandma Prisbrey is captured at 84, a vivacious guide to her brilliant houses crammed with objects scavenged from the county dump. At her wittiest, she sings, jokes with her older sister, and combs through the dump. The movie is produced & directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf and has been called by American Visionary Art Museum founder and director Rebecca Hoffberger as "the finest film ever made on any visionary artist."

On August 20, 2020, the museum hosted a virtual screening followed by a Q&A with Allie Light, moderated by Rebecca Hoffberger. To view the post-film Q&A visit    • Q & A with Filmmaker Allie Light on "Grand...  

"Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey” is produced & directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf. Light-Saraf Films, San Francisco 1982. The film, and The Visions of Paradise series of which it is a part, is the generous gift of Allie Light to the American Visionary Art Museum. To view the other films in the series, visit    • Visions of Paradise film series by Light-S...