Wild Wheels

Filmmaker Harrod Blank's WILD WHEELS is an amusing, sometimes surreal documentary on America's "art car" craze, in which, to put it in simplest terms, people decorate their cars and trucks.

That's where the simplicity ends, however; producer-director-cinematographer-editor Blank (the son of famed documentary filmmaker Les Blank, who contributed some cinematography here) has scoured a half dozen states across the US and found some eye-opening vehicles--about 45 appear in the film--along with their owners. Along with the expected religious fanatics, like the guy who has attached dozens of plumbing faucets to his car because God told him to, and UFO freaks, Blank h...