While not every artist Aaron Rose profiles in his documentary about one colorful corner of the 1990s New York Art scene is "beautiful," they're all "losers" and proud of it.
Fresh out of adolescence when they first arrived in NYC (none are natives and few still live there) and still smarting from the disenfranchisement that drove them to find comfort and community in punk rock, skateboarding and minor acts of vandalism like graffiti, artists Barry McGee, Mike Mills, Jo Jackson, Geoff McFetridge, filmmaker Harmony Korine and Rose himself actively embraced their marginalization and valued the imperfections of what art-world insiders dubbed "outsider art." To t...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins