SXSW Film Review: Award-winning documentary, Angel Applicant, finds two artists linked by one disease.
Being diagnosed with an incurable, unpredictable disease tends to narrow one’s focus to a ceaseless litany of existential questions: What happens next? How long do I have? What comes after that?
For first-time filmmaker Kenneth August Meyer, these questions comprise the frame around his autobiographical documentary, which this week took the SXSW grand jury documentary prize. In the autumn of 2000, a twentysomething Meyer was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease caused by “unknown environmental factors.” The body attacks itself, specifically inflaming the connective tissue, which basically binds the entire structure together. That structure being the body.
A crucial influence on Modern Art, a famed instructor at Weimer’s Bauhaus art school, and a frequent visitor to the crossword puzzle, Klee and his wife fled Hitler’s Germany for Switzerland in 1933, and that same year, he began to develop symptoms of scleroderma, although it was only after his death in 1940 that they were able to diagnose it. Meyer finds in Klee a kindred spirit, and becomes obsessed with the artist.then lays out these two lives.
Meyer is the first to admit his embarrassment, and this intimacy with which he lays bare his life and the effects of this horrific disease to the camera is overwhelmingly affecting.
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