Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse - Hartford Jewish Film Fest

In this engrossing documentary, the legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman lays bare his life and art – from underground comix and trade-cards to his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, where he portrayed his Holocaust-survivor parents as mice and cats. The story spans decades of radical work and restless questioning: How do you speak truth when the world tries to silence you? How do you wrestle with your father’s past, your own voice, and a medium still fighting for recognition as “real art”? Spiegelman’s humor, ambition and moral urgency all surface here, making this film both a portrait of an artist and a provocation to all of us.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024 and an Official Selection of the Miami Jewish Film Festival 2025.

Followed by a Reel Talk with Stuart Abrams, Teacher of Genocide Studies, Social Psychology, and Human Rights at Avon High School and Director of Holocaust Study Tours