What about In the Realms of the Unreal, eh? I wrote about the movie a while back on my sister blog, Moon Karma Zero and finally watched it this evening. A quick primer for those who don't know aobut the movie: it's a doc about a reclusive Janitor called Henry Darger who spent his life toiling away painting and writing a 13 000 page epic about the Vivien girls. I've always been interested in found/outsider art, so the movie was a real treat for me. Having never seen Darger's art in person I was facinated by the level of detail that he put into his paintings and the content of the art. You don't see hermaphrodite girls getting mutilated because of their love of Christ every day, you know?
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I want to see this. it's at the video store near my house. I don't have an account but Leeann does. we were talkin bout renting it. Thanks for the thumbs up, now I know it's worth it.
It's totally worth checking out. It was great to see how his art corelated with his life.
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