Seufert's Scenes

Cape Cod Photo of the Week: Illustrator Edward Gorey

Link: http://www.EdwardGorey.net

Edward Gorey at the old Cotuit Center for the Arts in October, 1996, which has since burned down.

I shot a documentary with the active and uncharacteristically eager illustrator Edward Gorey, who died at his home in Yarmouth in April of 2000 for the last five years of his life.  Though the documentary is still winding its way through the channels of red tape at his estate the video clips and photos I shot of his house continue to make "news."

Most recently mentions of the documentary project and the photos of his house as he left it spread onto a dozen sites, why, I'm not exactly sure.  Here's a sampling.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/09/24/bookmarks-inside-edward-gorey-s-house-diy-dan-brown-a-book-trailer-hit.aspx

http://blog.magersandquinn.com/2009/09/at-home-with-edward-gorey.html

http://blog.gesteves.com/post/195102794/edward-goreys-workspace-desk-by-christopher

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/23/

http://community.livejournal.com/edwardgorey

You can see the photos, snaps really, of the way he left his house, which has since been dismantled, sold, and then partially reassembled here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mychatham/sets/72157604189279962/

It goes to show you how dynamic the internet can be if you put yourself out there and these types of cycles of ongoing interest in my film project keep me determined to make it happen.... eventually, despite the work and cost of realizing the release of an independent documentary in the world today.  It's also interesting for me to find that there's just as much interest out there in the photo images of his house, as in the film images of the man himself.

More Soon,

Christopher Seufert

http://www.MooncusserFilms.com