- Gary Conklin
Gary Conklin is an independent American filmmaker based in
Los Angeles ,California .Conklin works predominantly in the documentary genre. His films focus on cultural icons of the 20th century. Subjects have included the late American writer and composer
Paul Bowles , in "Paul Bowles in Morocco ", which is as much about the North African country as it is about Bowles;Gore Vidal while running forU.S. Senate in 1982; the American painterEdward Ruscha , and theMexican painterRufino Tamayo .Conklin produced and directed "". The film features interviews with
Christopher Isherwood ,Louise Brooks , andArthur Koestler , among others, discussing the culturally significant period of the 1920s inBerlin , during theWeimar Republic . He also has produced and directed a documentary about English literary society during the period afterWorld War I untilWorld War II , which includesStephen Spender ,Anthony Powell ,Harold Acton ,James Lees-Milne ,Peter Quennell ,Christopher Isherwood , andDiana Mosley . Conklin also made "Notes from Under the Volcano " aboutJohn Huston 's making of the film "Under the Volcano".Filmography
As Producer & Director:
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Paul Bowles in Morocco " (1970)
*"" (1972)
*"" (1976)
*"L.A. Suggested by the Art of Ed Ruscha " (1981)
*"" (1983)
*"Notes from Under the Volcano " (1984)
*"A Question of Class " (1992)
*"Veracruz, El Espíritu Jarocho" (1998)External links
* [http://garyconklinfilms.com/ Gary Conklin Films website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174689/ Gary Conklin on IMDb.com]
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