This innovative feature length documentary explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger - Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night. By juxtaposing Darger's parallel but opposite universes, the film shows how he forged magic out of the bleakest of lives, leaving a letgacy that has inspire artists around the world.
Henry Darger worked all his life in menial jobs in Chicago. Living alone and in poverty, he had no friends or close family. Spending all his off hours alone, he whiled away the hours working on a 15,000 page illustrated novel called The Realms of the Unreal. A stunning amalgam of religious imagery, fantasy, and heroic drama, the work was only...