The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez

The Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez

The art of self embracement

2000 · 70 min · ★ 6.4 · Documentary, History

Intimate portrait of the social outcast Ricardo Lopez, chronicling the last days of his life in 1996 as he creates and sends a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid to Icelandic singer Björk and heads home to record his own suicide on video.

Directed by Sami Saif

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