Jo Ann Kaplan obituary

My friend and colleague Jo Ann Kaplan, who has died aged 70, was a painter, film-maker and film teacher. Her last film, Watching Paint Dry, shows Jo Ann painting her self-portrait. Through the use of time-lapse photography, we see paintings start, develop and finish. These are intercut with close-up shots of her facial features.Begun in 2007 when she was diagnosed with emphysema, it is a film of an artist coming to terms with her mortality by exploring the changing topography of her ageing face.