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…
