Giuseppe Makes a Movie

Giuseppe Makes a Movie

WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS SENIOR CITIZEN NUDITY AND DEAD PIGS

2014 · 82 min · ★ 7.8 · Documentary

While the rest of America slept, DIY filmmaker/musician Giuseppe Andrews has made over 30 experimental features. Set in some demented alternate universe (i.e. Ventura, California), they are populated by real-life alcoholics and drug addicts, trash-talking senior citizens and trailer park residents dressed in cow outfits and costume-shop wigs. Director Adam Rifkin creates a wildly surreal, outrageously funny and strangely touching portrait of a truly Outsider Artist inhabiting a world few of us even know exists.

Directed by Adam Rifkin · Written by David Nordstrom

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