All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is an epic, emotional and interwoven story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through her groundbreaking photographs, intimate interviews as well as rare footage of her personal struggle against the opioid industry.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film weaves together Goldin's past and present, the deeply personal and the urgently political, from actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin's photographs in her epic "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" as well as her legendary, censored AIDS exhibition "Witness: Against Our Vanishing".

The story begins with P.A.I.N., a group founded by Goldin, who was herself an addict. P.A.I.N. acts against museums that are funded by the pharmaceutical industry, wants to destigmatise addiction and help addiction victims. Inspired by Act Up, the group organises protests to draw attention to the toxic philanthropy of the Sackler family, whose company Purdue Pharma was mainly responsible for the opioid epidemic with its blockbuster drug OxyContin.