bungadiri
03 Aug 2005, 12:33 PM
Did anybody else see this last night? I was completely ignorant about Darger and this film was just astonishing. In addition to the fact that Darger's life and work are genuinely fascinating in their own right, the film itself was a really fine piece of documentary film making.
FYI: Darger died in the early 1970's at the age of 81. His neighbors, who'd befriended him, looked after his apartment after they'd been forced to move him into an institution. They were amazed to discover that the guy they'd known as an "eccentric" loner had produced thousands of pages of an epic text he called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is known as The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion" in which the Christian children armies fought against their enslavers in an imaginary world. He'd also produced 100's of paintings and illustrations. I looked on line after the show and some of these are now being sold at about $60,000. Totally wild and well worth watching if they play it again.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/intherealms/special_bio.html
FYI: Darger died in the early 1970's at the age of 81. His neighbors, who'd befriended him, looked after his apartment after they'd been forced to move him into an institution. They were amazed to discover that the guy they'd known as an "eccentric" loner had produced thousands of pages of an epic text he called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is known as The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion" in which the Christian children armies fought against their enslavers in an imaginary world. He'd also produced 100's of paintings and illustrations. I looked on line after the show and some of these are now being sold at about $60,000. Totally wild and well worth watching if they play it again.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/intherealms/special_bio.html