Don Vito Corleone
Elite
My stepmother Amei, who's been married to my father since 1989, is an art critic, and has been part of the art scene in NY for decades.
She and a friend, Marion, began making a documentary 16 years ago about the sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who Amei knows well. They had only sporadic funding and it was a part-time project for both of them. Marion died of breast cancer a couple of years ago, and Amei, who had no filmmaking experience, undertook to finish the movie.
The final product is called Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine. My girlfriend and I went to London in January to see the first partial screening of the film at the Tate Modern. It has evolved since then, and premiered at the Film Forum in NYC last weekend. So far Rotten Tomatoes has it at 90%.
Amei is now working on a second film about Russian artist Ilya Kabokov. Believe it or not it is funded in part by a Russian supermodel, Daria Zhukova, who recently flew Amei to Moscow for a gallery opening where she also hired Amy Winehouse to perform, as reported here.
As strange as all this is, I'm really proud that Amei is starting a new career at a time in life when most people are retiring.
She and a friend, Marion, began making a documentary 16 years ago about the sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who Amei knows well. They had only sporadic funding and it was a part-time project for both of them. Marion died of breast cancer a couple of years ago, and Amei, who had no filmmaking experience, undertook to finish the movie.
The final product is called Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine. My girlfriend and I went to London in January to see the first partial screening of the film at the Tate Modern. It has evolved since then, and premiered at the Film Forum in NYC last weekend. So far Rotten Tomatoes has it at 90%.
Amei is now working on a second film about Russian artist Ilya Kabokov. Believe it or not it is funded in part by a Russian supermodel, Daria Zhukova, who recently flew Amei to Moscow for a gallery opening where she also hired Amy Winehouse to perform, as reported here.
As strange as all this is, I'm really proud that Amei is starting a new career at a time in life when most people are retiring.
