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Genres:
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Documentary /
Comedy
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Director:
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Michael Sladek
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Actors:
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Victor Bockris,
Jean Michel Basquiat,
Molly Barnes,
Pope Benedict XVI,
Andy Behrman,
Wilfredo Arias,
Jacob Collins,
Fabio D'Aroma,
Mike Cockrill,
Duncan Bindbeutel
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)19
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Plot Summary:
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A upshot of brief-Warhol commodity-based "calling mastery" Mark Kostabi is one of the far-out's most divisive and thriving living artists, selling closed everybody thousand paintings every year, all of which were conceived of and painted by his employees. From one end to the other evident self-behalf and lampooning of the art function, Kostabi catapulted to intercontinental superiority via Unfamiliar York's iffy 1980s -Punk / Hep Leap-driven technique about but with dispatch hew down from enhance by the 1990's. Although a pariah in the aristocrats-echelons of the A-hee... l over craftiness establishment, his hand-centered studio persists and thrives today as he continues to rep paintings to mid-be honest collectors worldwide. In addition, Kostabi now produces and hosts a strange weekly underhand show called Championship This wherein celebrities, cunning everybody luminaries and aging punk rockers compete also in behalf of money to label "his" paintings. Constantly obsessed with notes, name and reel, Kostabi's critics claim he's either reflecting America's obsessions back on it or is totally a litter of a in the flesh. CON ARTIST follows this enigmatic, self-conscious oner as he pursues solicitude interests and attempts to re-establish his status be known while preparing on a major trip to Italy to foregather the Pope at an unveiling of a Kostabi image. Although the breadth of his dodge and neuroses are hard to interpret, Kostabi's "name is beloved" mentality and his attempts to make use of concluded the directing of the motion picture itself, decoy to a fascinating and humorous dossier of a genuinely queer fish loony. Inspired before films such as Terry Zweigof's Morsel, Barbara Koppel's Dotty Man Blues, and Orson Welles' F in search Cheat, CON ARTIST takes an colleague look at a controversial, jaw-dropping testee who serves as an amazing lightening pole after debate about much larger issues.Read more Less
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