Sister Corita

Already one of my highlights for the festival, Become a Microscope, is a short doc about 1960s pop artist Sister Corita, an inspiring nun who taught at a Catholic LA college, and who became an influential force in the art world, making friends with the Eames brothers and Hitchcock. The doc’s by Aaron Rose (with a soundtrack by Money Mark), who is best known for the Beautiful Losers art movement, and it’s gorgeously shot, with brilliant-hued archive footage and photos. Corita’s serigraphs, which Rose animates, wouldn’t look out of place beside a Yo Rodeo or Seripop poster on a