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Without Gorky
Director
Cosima Spender
Producers
Cosima Spender
Valerio Bonelli
Cinematographers
Benjamin Kracun
Cosima Spender
Urszula Pontikos
Editor
Valerio Bonelli
Sound
Jason Cooper
Matteo Cipollina
Oliver Kraus
Contact
Peacock Pictures Ltd
Cosima Spender
+44 07958309799
[email protected]
2011
United Kingdom
86 min
Color
Without Gorky is a personal journey into a powerful family tragedy. At the centre of the film are the conversations between the director, Cosima, and her grandmother, Mougouch. The whole family has been shaped by the legacy left by Cosima’s grandfather: the Abstract Expressionist painter Arshile Gorky. His suicide in 1948 still echoes and disturbs the family. Gorky was an elusive character who escaped the Armenian genocide and reinvented himself as a romantic artist in New York in the 30s.
Born in Italy in an artists’ family, and moved to England at fourteen. A university degree in Anthropology and Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies cultivated my interest in local identity and ethnic traditions, whether in Africa, Asia or Europe.
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