Gary Spinosa stepped away from his growing reputation among the handful of rising sculptors in the world, choosing instead to study and follow his artistic vision on a 28-acre farm in Venango, Pennsylvania. For thirty years, he's lived a reclusive life working seven days a week on his art, passing through phases of Mummies, Portals, Shrines, Icons, and hand-sized ceramic pieces he calls Stones. His work transcends our modern pathological consumption as well as the consumer art that defines our society. We step into his world of dreams, transformed by a spiritual consciousness that skirts, or perhaps more accurately blends, Christianity with ancient gods and Paganism, and Reality with the Metaphysical. Spinosa's work transfixes the viewer like the Sirens of Ancient Greek mythology, but Spinosa isn't luring you to a shipwreck. He guides you on a journey into the psyche, both ancient and fresh in an Archaic Revival. The documentary walks you along Spinosa's past, by his canary-yellow Ford Pinto rusting back into the earth, to his heart-wrenching inability to create for years, to a redemptive art and life that soothes with its gentleness and challenges with its audacity. DIVINE INSTINCT will make you ache for something better for your own living soul and reminds us that Art may be Humanity's truest legacy.

Directed by James Gossard
James Gossard is an award-winning film producer/director, poet, screenwriter, and playwright. His award-winning film, DIVINE INSTINCT, explores the psychological world and art of sculptor and mixed-media artist Gary Spinosa. Gossard worked as a freelance journalist, writing for wildlife journals. StoryPros named his screenplay, WHITE DUST, in its Top Ten Action-Thrillers. Gossard's screenplays have been optioned and earned laurels in “Spotlight on Screenwriters.” His stage plays have been produced and received awards, including the MSAC Individual Artist Award for “September Moon.” His poetry also received the highest MSAC Individual Artist Award. He earned his M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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