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Films about Outsider Art and Artists
I was just asked films about Outsider Art, and started to compile a list (with the help of good friend “Narrow” Larry Harris). Ovation TV is planning to dedicate a week of programming to such artists and site in February 2009. Be sure to check you cable listings!
Here are a few that we came up with…if you can think of more – please post them!
A Man named Pearl —Pearl Fryar
I Build the Tower – Watts Towers
In the Realms of the Unreal – Henry Darger
Salvation Mountain, A portrait of an artist (Leonard Knight)
Edward James – Builder of Dreams (Las Posas)
Image of the Tiger – Thornton Dial
Nek Chand (1985)
Howard Finster: Man of Visions (1988)
The Pasaquoyan: The Life and Works of Visionary Eddie Owen Martin, 1993, Eyeball Productions
Great films by Folkstreams:
– Possum Trot: The Life and Work of Calvin Black, 1903-1972
– Spirits in the Wood: The Chainsaw Art of Skip Armstrong
– Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
– The Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder
– Made in Mississippi: Black Folk Art and Crafts
– The Angel That Stands By Me: Minnie Evans’ Paintings
– Grandma’s Bottle Village, Art of Tressa Prisbrey’s
The Kohler Foundation has a series of shorts:
– Dr. Charles Smith (8:37)
– Loy Bowlin: The Rhinestone Cowboy (15:28)
– Mary Nohl: A Life’s Work (13:14)
– Albert Zahn: I’ll Fly Away (5:50)
TV series:
– Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations
– British series – Into the Outside (?)
– Canadian series – Shrines and Handmade Holy Places
Films about Outsider Art and Artists
I was just asked films about Outsider Art, and started to compile a list (with the help of good friend “Narrow” Larry Harris). Ovation TV is planning to dedicate a week of programming to such artists and site in February 2009. Be sure to check you cable listings!
Here are a few that we came up with…if you can think of more – please post them!
A Man named Pearl —Pearl Fryar
I Build the Tower – Watts Towers
In the Realms of the Unreal – Henry Darger
Salvation Mountain, A portrait of an artist (Leonard Knight)
Edward James – Builder of Dreams (Las Posas)
Image of the Tiger – Thornton Dial
Nek Chand (1985)
Howard Finster: Man of Visions (1988)
The Pasaquoyan: The Life and Works of Visionary Eddie Owen Martin, 1993, Eyeball Productions
Great films by Folkstreams:
– Possum Trot: The Life and Work of Calvin Black, 1903-1972
– Spirits in the Wood: The Chainsaw Art of Skip Armstrong
– Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
– The Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder
– Made in Mississippi: Black Folk Art and Crafts
– The Angel That Stands By Me: Minnie Evans’ Paintings
– Grandma’s Bottle Village, Art of Tressa Prisbrey’s
The Kohler Foundation has a series of shorts:
– Dr. Charles Smith (8:37)
– Loy Bowlin: The Rhinestone Cowboy (15:28)
– Mary Nohl: A Life’s Work (13:14)
– Albert Zahn: I’ll Fly Away (5:50)
TV series:
– Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations
– British series – Into the Outside (?)
– Canadian series – Shrines and Handmade Holy Places
Powerful video about mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar
“In a Dream” by his son Jeremiah Zagar…winner of SXSW 2008 Emerging Visions Audience Winner.
(click here for more information)
(see the trailer:)
Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds.
and an interview with Jeremiah:
Powerful video about mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar
“In a Dream” by his son Jeremiah Zagar…winner of SXSW 2008 Emerging Visions Audience Winner.
(click here for more information)
(see the trailer:)
Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds.
and an interview with Jeremiah:
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