Darger at the Gate
‘Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger’ screens at Notting Hill Gate Picturehouse, with tickets for the Q&A on December 16th available here: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Gate_Picturehouse/news/item/Revolutions_Of_The_Night_The_Enigma_Of_Henry_Darger_Q_A/
‘Revolutions of the Night’ at Lincoln Center, New York
Q&A with Richard Peña – Director of the New York Film Festival, Director Mark Stokes
My top 10 movies – Greer Nicholson
It’s the halfway point in 2012. I’ve been busy blogging in a bunch of different places and organising events and – well, just having a very full life. But I have been asked to post a top 10, so here goes. Let’s see how many make the whole year top ten! 1) John Carter: Yes I know…
International Festival of Films on Art- Review in Art Press No.390
TRANSCRIBING HISTORY Sharing the tools used by art historians, a filmmaker can also delve into the past in search of clues, traces and analytical elements. The British director Mark Stokes’s movie Revolution of the Night: the Enigma of Henry Darger is a sensitive attempt to unearth the story of this major outsider art figure who…
“The latest and best cinematic treatment of Darger’s art and life” ARTINFO.COM
From Outtakes – David D’Arcy on film – ARTINFO.COM David D’Arcy’s Review of Chris Sullivan’s ‘Consuming Spirits’: While watching Consuming Spirits, I was haunted by what looked like its affinities with Henry Darger (1892-1973), the janitor who lived alone in Chicago – where Sullivan lives – and wrote and drew endless sagas of interplanetary war…
OUTTAKES – David D’Arcy on film – Exhuming Reputations at FIFA 2012 – From ARTINFO.com
International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal, March 15-25) Awards for the 2012 International Festival of Films on Art were handed out last Saturday night in Montreal on the festival’s 25th anniversary. The selection was mixed, but it included some of the best films on art and architecture that you’re unlikely to see anywhere in…
THE ART NEWSPAPER Vol. XXI, No. 233
Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger Directed by Mark Stokes. One of the most celebrated “outsider” artists, whose work has fetched close to $100m, Chicago hospital porter and recluse Darger would almost certainly have been forgotten about after his death in 1973 had it not been for his landlord, photographer Nathan Lerner,…
