Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Name: Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-10-14
Rating: 7.2

Her art saved her life.

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Storyline

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.

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Details

DirectorFrank Stiefel

ReleasedOct 14, 2016

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

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Revenue

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Parental guideNot rated

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

Jude Dry

RTIndieWireFeb 23, 2018

Frank Stiefel's fascinating portrait of the artist Mindy Alper has many layers, almost as many as the wire spirals of Alper's whimsical and haunting sculptures.

Elena Goukassian

RTHyperallergicFeb 12, 2020

A moving film about the Los Angeles-based artist Mindy Alper.

MaryAnn Johanson

RTFlick FilosopherMar 5, 2018

A marvelously moving portrait of artist Mindy Alper. Her blunt openness about herself... is a challenge to us all to know ourselves as well as she seems to know herself, even when it's incredibly painful and difficult to do so.

Dan Lybarger

RTArkansas Democrat-GazetteFeb 23, 2018

[Mindy Alper's] art, including the doodles she drew as a kid, is astonishingly sensitive, and Stiefel uses animation and optical effects to put viewers into Alper's head.