Film
1033: In the Realms of the Unreal
Trivia: Henry
Darger worked all his life in menial jobs in Chicago. Living alone and in
poverty, he had no friends or close family. Spending all his off hours alone,
he whiled away the hours working on a 15,000 page illustrated novel called The
Realms of the Unreal. A stunning amalgam of religious imagery, fantasy, and
heroic drama, the work was only discovered after Darger was moved to a hospital
during the last days of his life. Darger also wrote journals and an
autobiography. The documentary uses interviews with Darger's neighbors and narration
of passages from his works, along with his illustrations, to explore the mind
and work of Henry Darger.
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