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Film Details

Margret Mellis: A Life In Colour

Venue: Eastern Edge Gallery
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Director/Réalisateur: Sue Giovanni
Producer/Producteur: Jules Hussey
Country/Pays: UK
Running Time/Durée: 65 min

This colourful documentary was completed in time to correspond with a major exhibition of Margaret Mellis’s work , survivor of the celebrated British-based St. Ives group of the 1930s. Mellis’s unique talent generated amazing canvases of bold colour, and reconfigured found objects from the natural world. She was deeply a part of her time but in a world dominated by men. Susannah York narrates in dulcet tones, just seductive enough to make us want to run to the nearest art gallery.