Art and Architecture: Andrew Geller, a documentary being prepared for public television, will detail Andrew Geller's career, starting with his life as an art student raised in Brooklyn, NY by Russian immigrant parents,continuing through his career as Vice President of Architecture for Raymond Loewy, and his groundbreaking freelance vacation house design. Attention will also be given to his work with traditional art mediums.

An additional theme that will run throughout the piece is Geller's ambition to prove his worth as an artist to his father, Joseph Boris Geller, a painter trained in impressionistic technique, and his responsibility to care or the needs of his wife and children.

The opportunity to make this documentary will not remain for very long. Several key interview subjects are elderly and in poor health. Great amounts of mid-century architectural and design history will be lost if immediate action is not taken.

Audience Distribution and Profile

The documentary, conceived by Jake Gorst, is being developed through Jonamac Productions. Funding is made possible by tax-deductible donations from humanitarians, individuals, corporations and foundations with love of architecture, the arts and a desire to further cultural ducation.

Art and Architecture: Andrew Geller is slated for completion in 2012.

Strategic planning for the release to schools, libraries and foundations is being conducted on both a national and local level.

A series of screenings throughout the country will serve to promote the documentary and educate the public.

Donations to the project are tax-deductible.

For more information on how you can become a sponsor please contact us at gellerfilm@jonamacproductions.com.

About the Filmmaker
Jake Gorst is the grandson of Andrew Geller, and an Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker, historian and preservationist.

Of his documentary film, Leisurama (2005, Jonamac Productions), architecture historian and Wall Street Journal writer Alastair Gordon said, “Jake Gorst’s documentary film...is a compelling look at American culture in the 1950s and 1960s. While the filmmaker has chosen to focus on an amusing marketing concept in affordable housing, he goes out of his way to explain the broader cultural implications of the Cold War and US-style capitalism. Leisurama is a refreshing look at an important era without the usual clichés.”

Other recent film contributions include William Krisel, Architect (2010, Design Onscreen), Journeyman Architect: The Life and Work of Donald Wexler (2009, Design Onscreen), Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs (2006, Design Onscreen), Farmboy (2006, Jonamac Productions), the direction of an animated sequence for the film Keeping It Alive by Murray Bruce Productions and associate production on Beyond the Beach: The Life and Death of Norman Jaffe (2006, The Jaffe Foundation).

Gorst is also a contributing writer to VOX Hamptons, Modernism and HOME Miami magazines.