NOVEMBER 2013. GEGO. THE FILM
Directed by filmmaker Nathalie David, the documentary film Gego was projected for the first time at the Kino Abaton, an arthouse film movie theater in Hamburg. Gego’s work and the different scenarios of her life, Hamburg and Caracas, are shown in this fine documentary which reunites the testimonies of the museum curators Brigitte Kolle, Petra Roettig, Eva Marina Froitzheim and Lisa Lefevre who organized the exhibition Gego, Line as Object. Director Nathalie David also interviewed relatives, friends, pupils and Venezuelan critics who were close to Gego and connoisseurs of her oeuvre.
The script of the film was based on Gego’s writings contained in the book “Sabiduras”. Each interviewee began by interpreting a thought of the artist in order to comment their personal experience and vision of Gego’s oeuvre in their generational context or in the context of art in Venezuela and the world.
The film was shown several times in the cities where the exhibition was held. It was projected in Paris, in Caracas and now it is being shown in several documentary film festivals about art.
