Tonight at the Film Festival, I saw a documentary titled Love and Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jamie Leonarder. The subject of the documentary is a rather unusual person, who has lived the life of the outsider in every way. He worked in psychiatric hospitals, started a noise-rock band named The Mu-Mesons, most of whose members suffer from schizophrenia, associated with outsider artists, and more recently, ran a retro/lounge/exotica night named Sounds of Seduction in Sydney, and became a renowned collector and exhibitor of "psychotronic" cinema (i.e., all the indescribably weird stuff from prior decades, from low-budget monster movies to films from Christian groups on the evils of teenage dating to vintage sex-education films). Anyway, the documentary had some interesting thoughts on outsider art, including the assertion that outsider art is more original than art by trained or mentally normal artists (which makes sense).
Posted by: Ben | http:// | Tue Jul 30 13:26:04 2002
Have you ever seen the Italian film Love and Anarchy? It's very good, about this rural Anarchist who comes to Rome to shoot Mussolini and finds love, then gets clubbed to death by fascists.
Incidentally, you will all be pleased to hear I didn't get evicted today, the Residential Tenancy Tribunal threw out the landlord's complaint.