{"id":1752,"date":"2006-05-01T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/05\/01\/must-see-video-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T04:22:00","slug":"must-see-video-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/05\/01\/must-see-video-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-see video: In the Realms of the Unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/darger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/darger.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>This documentary provides probably as much of the story of outsider artist Henry Darger as you are ever likely to learn. Darger was a recluse who avoided all but a few people during his relatively long life. Upon being admitted to a hospital late in life, his life&#8217;s work, an enormous and truly unique trove of artwork and writings titled &#8220;In the Realms of the Unreal&#8221;, was discovered in his apartment by a neighbor who had been aiding in his care. What was contained in his work, the complexity of it, and his extreme antisocialism are captured in this film.<\/p>\n<p>Before seeing it, I was incredulous how the life of a man of whom so little was known could provide enough substance to carry a feature-length documentary. However filmmaker Jessica Yu&#8217;s approach is utterly captivating, masterfully combining narration drawn from his writing, animated images from his paintings, and memories of the few people who knew him. The result is a remarkable tribute to a mad genius whose intense commitment to his art rivaled Van Gogh and whose reputation as an artist will surely continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Available in Media Services.  DVD 1308\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary provides probably as much of the story of outsider artist Henry Darger as you are ever likely to learn. Darger was a recluse who avoided all but a few people during his relatively long life. Upon being admitted to a hospital late in life, his life&#8217;s work, an enormous and truly unique trove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}