The Cartoon Museum is screening Crumb. Director Terry Zwigoff and Producer David Lynch come together to make this documentary detailing the life of one of the most prolific voices of underground comix, R. Crumb. It’ll be presented by programmers Joel Whitaker and Molly Miles. The screening will be in a pop-up screen and the film will be preceded by a short introduction.
This intimate documentary portrays the daily life of underground comix artist R.Crumb, the mind behind the comic strip Keep On Truckin and Fritz the Cat, exploring his family, life and art. Often imitated, and as influential as he is controversial, Crumb sheds light on how R.Crumb’s fixations and neurosis are one with the comix he draws. Through interviews with Crumb’s wife and family, alongside the man himself, the documentary sketches the image of an artist rarely made possible. Zwigoff’s friendship with Crumb, brought on by Zwigoff's involvement in Crumb’s string band ‘R.Crumb & His Cheap Suit Surrenders’, allowed the director to gain access to parts of the artist's life usually off limits, both in lifestyle and confession. The films unconventional form allows Zwigoff’s presence to be playful alongside Crumb’s life and image, from candidly discussing sordid details of Crumb’s views on women in a cafe to setting up a ‘fantasy’ photoshoot. Zwigoff portrays Crumb with a rare respect for the true eccentricity of his subject matter. The interviews with R.Crumb’s brothers, as well as his late wife Aline, all weave the underlying fixations that makeup Crumb’s work together, as the extent to which the entire Crumb family is socially outcast becomes clear and the how this affects Crumb’s art, and sense of humour, materialises. This results in a documentary that remains as shocking as it does enlightening, even nearly thirty years after its initial release.
Please note that this film contains depictions of graphic sexual content.
Tickets
£9.50 Adults
£6 Concessions
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