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Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

Biography, Documentary | English | 88 minutes

Las Entreprise

House Of Film


Cast & Crew

Director

Tamar Halpern

Producer

Chris Quilty

Writer

Tamar Halpern

Cast

Llyn Foulkes, Johnny Carson


La Bande-annonce

youtube.com/watch?v=dbB7L-XD7J4


Synopsis

The Portrait of an Artist Filmed Over a Decade


The most uncompromising contemporary artist and musician Llyn Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large-scale, three-dimensional paintings, one that costs him his marriage, while trying to keep afloat in the fickle art market.

The movie follows Llyn Foulkes career, in "Boyhood" style, over more than a decade. With interviews from 1960's LA art scene vets Dennis Hopper and George Herms, the film reconstructs Foulkes's uncompromising, up-and-down career as he was kicked out of the legendary Ferus Gallery and walked away from a successful career as a Pop artist.

Structured like one of Foulkes's constantly reworked paintings, the film tracks his artistic struggles, ending as he is at last rediscovered by the international art world at age 77.

With music written and performed by Foulkes on a massive, fanciful, self-invented musical instrument he calls "The Machine," Llyn Foulkes One Man Band is an intimate portrait of an artist battling his own demons as well as that of the art world.


Année d'achèvement

2015


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