This innovative feature length documentary, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger (Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night) and his 15,000 page novel and incredible paintings. In the Realms of the Unreal explores outsider art from the inside. It reflects the uniqueness of its subject, employing vivid animation and experiemental elements to immerse us in Darger's world and all its strange beauty. Reverberate with universal themes: the search for meaning, control, connection, moral direction. Through Darger's eyes, film reveals this odd man to be Everyman.
