They Will Take My Island
- Media type
- Film
They Will Take My Island · They Will Take My Island · MOVIE
About this title
They Will Take My Island (2021), a collaboration between composer Mary Kouyoumdjian and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), explores the life and influence of Armenian American abstract painter Arshile Gorky. Highly personal original short films and unreleased scenes by Egoyan are interwoven with interviews and new scores by Kouyoumdjian performed by the acclaimed JACK and Silvana Quartets.