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
James Castle: Portrait of an Artist (2008)
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