Don Driver: Magician

Biographical documentary on New Zealand contemporary artist Don Driver (1930 - 2011). "We meet Driver at home and in his studio in New Plymouth, tearing up movie posters and reconstituting them into intimations of primal dread no film studio ever dreamt of, at least, not knowingly. Driver’s weirdly animate assemblages took many forms and sizes – those dolls and animal skulls, the prams erupting with plastic tubing – and their stockyard surrealism sent shivers down the spines of the unprepared...

"It is amusing to hear his flat disavowals of sinister intent, completely apiece with his way of letting the art do the talking... Elizabeth Smither narrates and interviews the subject, while diverse artists and commentators pepper analysis with anecdote.” (New Zealand Film Festival)

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