Product Description

This award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary showcases the art & crimes of well-known anti-corporate pop artist Ron English. English, best known for his illegal billboard art and for his Supersize Me artwork, could live a comfortable life as a gallery artist, but instead, he chooses to buck the system and create art that is controversial and thought-provoking. With a hip and eclectic soundtrack, featuring such artists as The Dandy Warhols, this film has been hailed by numerous critics and has won multiple awards at film festivals nationwide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80241 in DVD
• Brand: CINEMA LIBRE
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 5.00 pounds
• Running time: 78 minutes

Features

• This award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary showcases the art & crimes of well-known anti-corporate pop artist Ron English. English, best known for his illegal billboard art and for his Supersize Me artwork, could live a comfortable life as a gallery artist, but instead, he chooses to buck the system and create art that is controversial and thought-provoking. With a hip and eclectic so

Customer Reviews

Sticking it to the Man
I was apathetic about Ron English's artwork before I saw this movie. And I didn't know very much about his billboard art. I appreciated the technical skill and surface appeal of the paintings but I didn't get the message, in fact I thought they were a little frivolous. Seeing the movie gave me a greater respect and appreciation for his work and his message. Now I am such a believer in his work that I recommend this movie to people. It does drag a little towards the end when the subject turns to his "fine art" career. The street/billboard art is just more exciting as a doc subject and also as art, in some ways. Still this is an excellent introduction to the world of this great artist. And it's also good to use in an art class (of "mature" students) as an example of political/activist and lowbrow/pop/popsurrealism etc.

Very Interesting
Although, I don't agree with all the things Ron English does or has to say (and some of the pieces seem provocative only for the sake of being provacative, devoid of a message - or maybe I'm missing the point on some of his works), I found this film (as well as much of the artist's work) to be wonderfully though-provoking and also quite inspiring. This, to me, is the real purpose of art.

I also really enjoyed learning about some of Mr. English's early photography work, which are the sorts of things you could look at for hours, wondering how it was done - very cool.

I would recommend this movie to Spurlock fans who enjoyed Super Size Me, as Ron's work played a role in that film. I would also recommend this to artists, art-students, and persons interested in social activism. Some people may get their blood-pressure up, thinking of all the ways they disagree with Mr. English's messages or methodologies, even if you hate everything Mr. English does you may still find value in this film. I would not recommend this movie to people who are typically bored by documentaries.

Brilliant!
Ron English is a prodigious, prolific, and courageous artist who has risked serious criminal penalties to tweak corporate America, the government, religion, and the art world with his guerilla billboards and works on canvas. I greatly enjoyed this film, which showcases a wide variety of his work and has an enjoyable soundtrack. His satires of Thomas Kinkade paintings made me fall off my couch laughing. The film also documents some interesting collaborations with a number of other artists (performance and visual) and the musician Daniel Johnston. Like many brilliant iconoclasts, he appears at times to be struggling to cling to the verge of sanity and to maintain his family life, but this may be the price one pays for surfing the cutting edge of popular culture. A particularly fun feature was the little tutorial at the end on how to get away with putting up guerilla billboards -- try this at home, folks!