“Without Gorky” documentary untangles mystery of artist’s historyJune 16, 2011 - 11:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Cosima Spender’s “Without Gorky” documentary about Armenian surrealist and abstract expressionist Arshile Gorky is a deeply personal exploration of buried memories and distant impressions that have pervaded her upbringing. Cosima’s Grandmother Mougouch met Gorky, 20 years her senior, at the age of 19. With a combination of archive footage, shots of paintings, her mother and aunt’s hazy memories, the film explores Gorky’s legacy, in the order that Mougouch came to know him. Gorky created a web of lies around himself, so extensive that Mougouch didn’t know his full background, or even real name until after his death. A series of unfortunate events unfolded during their relationship, leading to his suicide; his studio burnt down with many of his paintings, he underwent extensive surgery for cancer and broke his neck. The documentary untangles the mystery of Gorky’s history that led to his migration to New York and offers a sense of catharsis, and perhaps liberation from the turbulence and confusion lingering in Gorky’s shadow, littlewhitelies.co.uk reports. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |