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A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything. Written by Even G. Benestad and August B. Hanssen
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2 September 2011 (Norway) See more »Company Credits
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Well, no review yet for this documentary about the most famous painter in Norway. Well, I guess I am first then. FIRST! Couldn't resist that one. Well, let's begin. From the very first word I heard about the artist Terje Brofos a.k.a Hariton Pushwagner among the media and word of mouth. I heard he was a eccentric, but quiet type of artist. Later in the years that changed. When having seen this film, and the representation of Pushwagner himself, the eccentricity is there, quiet? No, but not over-the-top. The two directors spent three years to follow and make this documentary about him, and parts of his life, the life including alcohol and narcotics, including his life as bum on the streets. How he was thrown out from his ex, and his life prior to his current jet-set life. It also refer to the controversy surrounding a contract where in which he had signed of the rights to his art, to his personal assistant. My experience with this documentary is this ...
The documentary starts out with Pushwagner directing the directors of his documentary and tell them how and what he want for the scene. We then cut back to a control-room where Pushwagner is looking over materials for his documentary and seems to be in control of what is to be shown before the audience. It is actually a damn good opening in my opinion, and it shows how creative you can be with this type of film-making too. What follows is, indeed creative too. You see Pushwagner drawing, you see how he sketches people to the paper. Then you see that he is actually drawing the crew that is filming him, while he draws them. They have to sit in the same position, all till he is done. I was at a preview screening of it, and it was big, for those whom had the opportunity to attend such extravaganza. In Oslo, he was to attend and give a speech at Klingenberg Kino (Klingenberg Cinema), where I attended. But I did not get those tickets, too bad indeed. If that would be possible now, I would gladly have done so. It would have made the whole experience even better of what it was.
The film-makers make some interesting narrative moves in the documentary, with him as previously stated, himself directing his own documentary and so. One sequence I particularly liked, and has stuck to my mind as I write this: It is a scene where he orders the directors to film him, on a balcony. Behind him, is what I can make out of it, some pretty big artists, in a chain. He then opens his arms and greet the audience that witness his ultimate rise to fame and glory, as he won the prestigious art-award of Oslo. In the last shot, we see the original background changes, and transform into his own art, while he greet his audience. In my words, as I sat and saw this: Epic! I went there.
The whole Pushwagner popularity has risen to a form of iconic representation. The way Pushwagner creates his imagery is indeed in the high form of imaginative ways to paint. His style of drawing and so, is inspirational and you see some of the artist's work in the documentary, rendered to look like a 2D image with 3D capabilities. Those sequences would look delicious in the 3D-Format, no doubt. What I mean when I say Meta-Documentary, is this; In the documentary, he mentioned the word Meta and I assume he is talking about the way the film is made, is meta indeed. I liked this piece of documentary, and I highly recommend it, for the people of special interest, and everyone actually. This is a film, you have to see to believe, a nice little gem. I am going all balls out here again, to say; This has a cult-potential in the making, because it feel very like that type of film (that only reaches out to a special kind of people).
I like his paintings (especially "JobKill"), and of all that. The man himself, represented in the documentary, is a person that would take in my eyes time to get used to. No offense, but this man is an unpredictable enigma with a strong and interesting background.
The End.