A 96-year-old art legend builds a canoe into forever while time watches.
"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”— commissioned by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Botanical Gardens — a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds. This film renders a portrait of Betye's process at 96 while also reflecting on her life, career, and memories of Pasadena.
Direction
Reingold lets Saar's hands do the talking—patient, reverent.
Cinematography
The canoe becomes a landscape; gardens become dreams.
Director
Kyle Provencio Reingold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saar began incorporating found objects into her work in the 1960s, pioneering the Black assemblage movement alongside her contemporaries.
The Huntington's complex history includes Henry Huntington's railroad empire and its role in Southern California's development—Saar's installation quietly reclaims this space for Black artistic memory.
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