A New Documentary Looks at Etel Adnan’s Radical Mind and What She Left Us

The fog rises from Mount Tamalpais like a spirit, slowly billowing over spears of feathery redwoods and fluffs of fragrant bay laurels. A carpeted green California landscape meets sky and a lick of silvery Pacific Ocean. The mountain seems to breathe like a living being, and it acts as a central character in a new documentary about the late artist Etel Adnan, who similarly turned her attention to the mountain in numerous paintings and poems for over five decades.Filmed during the last five years