Tuesday, January 24, 2006

USA: Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English 2004

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Director: Pedro Carvajal
Features: Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Slash, Morgan Spurlock.
Release date: USA 2004
Length: 78 mins
Documentary

Still yet to be released on DVD. All reports is that it isn't even a 1/4 as interesting as his artwork & that it fails to deliver what it promises. I just needed an excuse to post up his fantastic Homer Simpson painting.

Taken from Fantasiafestival.com.
"While English’s name might not be instantly recognizable to everyone, you’re almost certainly familiar with his imagery. One example of many: English designed the morbidly obese Ronald McDonald art so memorably featured in Super Size Me. Shot, fittingly, guerilla-style over a span of nearly 10 years, Pedro Carvajal’s documentary covers all phases of English’s eccentric, ongoing career, including his early 8mm films, music work and brilliant experimental photography, and features appearances by Robert Williams, the Billboard Liberation Front, Morgan Spurlock, Daniel Johnston, the Dandy Warhols and Slash. Popaganda is an important look at corporate-imposed limitations of free speech, an inspiration to guerilla artists of all stripes and a memorable portrait of a genuine American revolutionary."

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