Kelly Ludwig

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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

Isaiah Zagar- In a Dream

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