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Plot

An innovative masterpiece that literally gives wings to one man's singular vision of an imaginary world. Henry Darger lived a reclusive life and died alone in a Catholic mission in 1973. For more than 60 years, he created a massive literary and graphic body of work, including The Realms of the Unreal, an epic, fifteen-thousand-page novel with hundreds of paintings that recounts the wars between nations on an enormous unnamed planet. Darger's keen sense of composition and vivid colors allowed him to create incredibly intense and beautiful illustrations which are often disturbingly violent. Consciously excluding art experts and psychologists, Yu presents impressions of Darger's work only from the people who knew him, letting the audience make up their own minds about the man. The film cleverly parallels his real life with his fantasies, making the oddness of his fantasy world more accessible.

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  Larry Pine

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Who is making In the Realms of the Unreal – Crew List

A look at In the Realms of the Unreal behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Jessica Yu last helmed A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and Quiz Lady. The film's writer Jessica Yu last penned Last Call At The Oasis.

Director

Jessica Yu

Screenwriter

Jessica Yu

Producers

Sue West
Susan West
Jessica Yu

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Dec 2004

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