Make Me Famous

I saw this film with a Q&A afterwords with the filmmakers. They are both artists, performers, not visual artists or even filmmakers until this many years in the making project took hold of therm.. Their research is spot on and with a mixture of period film and video with backward facing interviews of artists and galleryists they tell a story that transcends their direct subject to evoke a deeply personal and real consideration of all of the immensely talented artists who don't "succeed." I lived in New York then and went to some of the places in this film and certainly must have met some of the people in the film. Make Me Famous does a terrific job of showing that life, its milieu, its standards, its values and the hurlyburly of a striving artist, penniless, pursuing his art in anyway available. It's desperate, sad, and marvelous and brave and tragic all at once and this film captures it all so well..