Without Gorky  UK
2011, 80min.
Producers: Cosima Spender, Valerio Bonelli
Director: Cosima Spender
Script: Cosima Spender, Valerio Bonelli, Saskia Spender
Directors of Photography: Benjamin Kracun, Ula Pontikos
Composers: Jason Cooper, Oloiver Kraus, Matteo Cipollina
Sound: Oliver Tarney, Simon Chase, Dillon Bennett
Editor: Valerio Bonelli
Cast: Agnes ‘Mougouch’ Gorky, Maro Gorky, Natasha Gorky, Matthew Spender
Production Company
Peacock Pictures Ltd
4 Cleveland Square, London W26DH.
Tel:+44 (0)2072626564
Cel: +44 (0)7958309799
Personal film on Arshile Gorky (American-Armenian painter with seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism), whose violent suicide in 1948 left fraught dynamics in the family. Both ‘art film’ and ‘family history’.
| Spender, Cosima  Cosima Spender (born 1972, Italy)
Born and grown up in Italy in an English artists’ family she moved to England at 14. A university degree in anthropology and art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies and UCL (University of London, 1995-1997) cultivated her interest in local identity and ethnic traditions, whether in Africa, Asia or Europe. Still photography and travelling sparked off a passion that led to the post-graduate documentary directing course at the National Film and Television School in England (1998-2001). Since leaving film school she has travelled around the world as a camera/director.
Filmography
Life and Death on Exmoor (2001), The Importance of Being Elegant (2004), Dolce Vita Africana (2007), Without Gorky (2011).
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