Directed by Harrod Blank • 2009 • United States

What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art and drive it down the road for all to see? What would it look like? What would the world think of you? How would you be changed? AUTOMORPHOSIS looks into the minds and hearts of a delightfu...

Directed by Harrod Blank and Joanne Shen • 2022 • United States

This short documentary is a heartwarming portrait of Idaho hermit Richard “Dugout Dick” Zimmerman, who lived in caves that he dug on the banks of the Salmon River. It was the hope of finding precious metals that kept him digging and...

Directed by David Silberberg • 2008 • United States

Filmed over sixteen years, this obsessively made documentary explores the creative life and adventures of the eccentric artist and entrepreneur Harrod Blank. Chronicling everything from his youth growing up in the woods with chickens and workin...

Directed by Harrod Blank and Sjoerd Djik • 2019 • United States

When Albuquerque’s Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, came out as transgender, she began a remarkable personal journey through identity and self-discovery. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank (...

Directed by Harrod Blank • 1992 • United States

WILD WHEELS is filmmaker Harrod Blank’s comic and revealing exploration of art cars —customized automobiles that reflect the individualistic spirit of their drivers. Traveling across the U.S. in his own wildly decorated VW bug, Blank discovers a me...

Directed by Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon • 2013 • United States

THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC! is a vivid portrait of Chris Strachwitz, the obsessive sonic sleuth who founded the legendary music label Arhoolie Records to bring blues, Cajun, Tejano, zydeco, folk, and other forms of American roots ...

Directed by Bruce “Pacho” Lane and Alan Govenar • 1981 • United States

Meet Leonard St. Clair, a.k.a. Stoney: a paraplegic little person, a carnival sword-swallower as a child, and a tattoo artist since 1928, he is a font of strange and incredible tales about the art of tattooing and other unrel...

Directed by Tomas McCabe and Andrei Rozen • 2003 • United States

BUMS’ PARADISE depicts the lives of men and women who lived in an abandoned landfill in Albany, California, vividly portraying the vibrant community they built as well as the amazing artworks that they created, and ultimately follo...

Directed by Robert Abel • 1965 • United States

SEVEN SECOND LOVE AFFAIR marked legendary filmmaker Les Blank’s first documentary photography job shooting drag racers in Long Beach, California. Driving everything from hopped up Mercs to supercharged Rail Dragsters, these daredevil drivers could a...

Directed by Nick Spitzer • 1984 • United States

Shot in rural French-speaking Louisiana, this vibrant ethnographic portrait of zydeco’s beloved musical families explores their Creole identities through engaging footage of them at home, in local clubs, at work, and running Mardi Gras. Featuring p...