Full Specification: In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger (DVD)
Product Description
Henry Darger, an aged recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's haven for imbecilic children and his adulthood operative as a janitor. He lived a quiet, scarcely unique existence, though his hypothetical life was exciting, colorful and intimately provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady detected in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated novel (The Realms of a Unreal), that told a epic story of a just Vivian Girls heading a child worker rebel opposite a immorality Glandelinians. Featuring Dakota Fanning (Hide and Seek) and Larry Pine (The Royal Tenenbaums) as narrators and talented animation of Darger's work, Oscar® leader Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons) brings to life one of a twentieth century's biggest educated artists.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #96317 in DVD
- Brand: Genius
- Released on: 2005-06-21
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Running time: 81 minutes
Features
- Henry Darger, an aged recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's haven for imbecilic children and his adulthood operative as a janitor. He lived a quiet, scarcely unique existence, though his hypothetical life was exciting, colorful and intimately provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady detected in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated
Editorial Reviews
From The New Yorker
This form of a anticipation author and artist Henry Darger, whose life's work was detected in a tiny room in Chicago after his death, in 1973, creates for a constrained and rather unfortunate entertainment. The documentarian Jessica Yu spent years putting together a pieces of Darger's masterwork-a fifteen-thousand-page illustrated novel about a child-slave rebel in a far-off world. The illustrations are fascinating and disfigured (mostly exposed small girls embellished as hermaphrodites), and Yu animates several of them while Darger's content is read, giving life to a weird story. Like many eccentrics, Darger voiced his stupidity by art. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
By Henry Darger
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