The South's best-kept secret? Artists who built worlds from trash, faith, and pure stubborn genius.
A film documenting the soulful art, environments, and voices of self-taught artists on the back roads of the American South.
Cinematography
Patient, loving shots of homemade environments — no talking heads needed.
Production
Access to reclusive artists who rarely let cameras this close.
Direction
Long lets the art speak; ego-free filmmaking about ego-free art.
Director
Patrick Long
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Folk art wasn't seriously collected until the 1980s; most of these artists died broke while their work now sells for thousands.
R.A. Miller's 'Blow Oskar' whirligigs appeared in the 1996 Olympics opening ceremony — he never owned a TV to see it.
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