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Beautiful Losers

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Beautiful Losers
País:

Estados Unidos 
Directores:

Joshua Land

Aaron Rose
Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

90 min
Cast:
  • Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine
Production:
  • DIRECCIÓN: Aaron Rose, Joshua Land
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Tobin Yelland
  • MONTAJE: Lenny Mesina
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Rich Lim, John Barlow, Chris Green

Synopsis

The most beautiful losers of the 90s American artistic scene are, paradoxically, the most successful of the contemporary one. Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Mike Mills, and the list goes on. Although now many of them work as design artists for Nike, Pepsi or MTV, until not so long ago they were a bunch of adorable lumpens with skates, cameras, paintbrushes, and spray paint under their arms. And those somewhat bitter roots are what the documentary by Aaron Rose, artist, curator and founder of Alleged art gallery (old meeting point of the losers), tries to dig up and show in detail, through interviews and visits to the artists' studios. In its apparent simplicity, Beautiful Losers portrays the beginning of everything, the outbreak, the movement, and the crystallization of a new chapter in the history of American art, led by some very nice guys and gals.