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 working as a camera assistant for his father, the venerable filmmaker Les Blank, to the creation of his first attention-getting art car, to his current multifaceted career as creator and head of a nationwide art-car movement, this engaging portrait is an appropriately offbeat ode to a true original defiantly pursuing his own form of nonconformity.
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Why Can’t I Be Me? Around You
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 (...
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Wild Wheels
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...
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This Ain’t No Mouse Music
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 ...
