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An innovative masterpiece that literally gives wings to one man's singular vision of an imaginary world. Henry Darger lived a reclusive life and died alone in a Catholic mission in 1973. For more than 60 years, he created a massive literary and graphic body of work, including The Realms of the Unreal, an epic, fifteen-thousand-page novel with hundreds of paintings that recounts the wars between nations on an enormous unnamed planet. Darger's keen sense of composition and vivid colors allowed him to create incredibly intense and beautiful illustrations, which are often disturbingly violent. Consciously excluding art experts and psychologists, Yu presents impressions of Darger's work only from the people who knew him, letting the audience make up their own minds about the man. The film cleverly parallels his real life with his fantasies, making the oddness of his fantasy world more accessible.

Production
Cherry Sky Films; Diorama Films; Independent Television Service (ITVS) (in association with);

Cast Names
Henry Darger; Larry Pine; Dakota Fanning; Frier McCollister; Wally Wingert; Janice Hong; Ruby McCollister; Paul Robert Langdon; Mary O'Donnell; Kiyoko Lerner; Mary Rooney; David Berglund; Regina Waters; Mark Waters;

Box Office
USD 413,708

Release Date
2004-01-01 * (Sundance Film Festival)
2004-03-24 (Cleveland International Film Festival)
2004-06-17 (Provincetown International Film Festival)
2004-12-22 (limited)
2005-03-31 (Wisconsin Film Festival)

Genres
Documentary; Biography;

Running Time
1 hr. 21 min.

Director
Jessica Yu

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