Beautiful Losers (film)

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Beautiful Losers

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Directed by Aaron Rose
Joshua Leonard
Produced by Jon Barlow
Rich Lim
Noah Khoshbin
Chris Green
Starring Thomas Campbell
Cheryl Dunn
Shepard Fairey
Jo Jackson
Chris Johanson
Margaret Kilgallen
Harmony Korine
Geoff McFetridge
Barry McGee
Mike Mills
Stephen Powers II
Claire E. Rojas
Aaron Rose
Deanna Templeton
Ed Templeton
Music by Money Mark
Cinematography Tobin Yelland
Editing by Lenny Mesina
Release date(s) March 1, 2008(SxSw Festival)
Running time 89 min
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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This article is about film/art exhibit by Aaron Rose. For the book by Leonard Cohen, see Beautiful Losers.

Beautiful Losers is a 2007 documentary feature film by director Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard. It was produced by Sidetrack Films.

It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2008[1][2].

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[edit] Subject Matter

The film focuses on the careers and work of a collective group of artists who since the 1990s began a movement in the art world using D.I.Y. aesthetics from skateboarding, graffiti and underground music such as punk rock and hip-hop[3]. The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include Thomas Campbell, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Mike Mills, Steven "Espo" Powers, Aaron Rose, Ed Templeton and Deanna Templeton.

A series of interviews with these artists explains their reasoning behind their "do-it-yourself" style of street art. As some of these artists discuss their growth in popular artistic culture they explain how becoming renown and admired in the art world was something that never occurred to them from their various roots in street culture, or simply creating art for themselves. As many of the artists began to be recognizable and sought after they discuss their series of commercial success: creating advertisements for popular products, designing products themselves, working in film and being hired to paint and create artwork in well known locations. The personal feelings and convictions of some of the artists and how creating work for corporations compares to their begins in street culture is also discussed.

Cover of Beautiful Losers art book
Cover of Beautiful Losers art book

[edit] Art Book

The film was preceded by a published art collection (ISBN 1933045302) and traveling museum exhibition called Beautiful Losers. The book was published by D.A.P./Iconoclast and edited by Aaron Rose, who directed the film.[4]

[edit] Traveling Museum Exhibition

The traveling exhibition is a collaborative art show which featured all of the artists from the film, and which toured around the world from 2007.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Beautiful Losers World Premiere At SXSW", Sidetrack Films, 2008-02-20. Retrieved on 2008-04-01. 
  2. ^ "Beautiful Losers", South by Southwest Festivals. Retrieved on 2008-04-01. 
  3. ^ SIDETRACK FILMS / Beautiful Losers. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  4. ^ Wells, Meg (2008-03-14). Who is Aaron Rose. Flux.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  5. ^ Valdez, Sarah. "Thrashers and taggers: "Beautiful Losers," a traveling exhibition that includes established, emerging and accidental artists, examines an esthetic sensibility inspired by various subcultures, from skateboarding to hip-hop", Art in America, 2005-01. Retrieved on 2008-04-01. 

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