Bay Street Theater

Mon, 12/9, 2:00pm, 84 min
DIRECTOR: Daria Price

Q&A with Daria Price

PRODUCER: Daria Price
EDITOR: Daria Price
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Peter Sova, Daria Price, Martin Himmel, Peter Cayer, Palu Abadia

Driven to Abstraction unravels a tale of greed and fraud--the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City’s oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s esteemed director the victim of a con artist who showed up with an endless treasure trove of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for many millions of dollars for fifteen years? 

Daria Price works in both documentary and fiction films. Her first feature documentary Out On a Limb won Best Documentary at the 2013 Boston International Film Festival. Driven to Abstraction is her second feature documentary. Daria also wrote, produced, directed, and edited the award-winning Survival of the Fittest, a satirical mystery that lampoons America's obsession with youth and beauty, featured on Comcast’s On Demand Cutting Edge series.