Rocaterrania DVD Featuring Renaldo Kuhler - BRAND NEW & Sealed 2017 Edition!

Description: Rocaterrania(Dir. Brett Ingram, 2009, 74 minutes) BRAND NEW! 2017 EDITION DVD featuring enhanced digital encode and new cover art! Rocaterrania is a documentary feature exploring the secret world of scientific illustrator and self-taught artist Renaldo Kuhler(American, 1931-2013). Synopsis: For thirty years, Renaldo Kuhler created hundreds of plates for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, illustrating diverse flora and fauna for scientific journals, reference books, and exhibits. Unbeknownst to family, friends, and coworkers, Renaldo was also a prolific self-taught artist. The son of Otto Kuhler, a renowned industrial designer, Renaldo was bullied and ridiculed by classmates, teachers, and headmasters simply for being different. When Otto moved the family from upstate New York to a remote cattle ranch in the Colorado Rockies, teenaged Renaldo found the isolation unbearable. He escaped to the private fantasy world of his notebooks, inventing an imaginary country he called Rocaterrania. For the next 60 years, Renaldo illustrated the nation's history, a coded, metaphoric account of his own life. Situated on the border of New York and Canada, settled mostly by European immigrants, Rocaterrania has a unique government, language, religion, social programs, architecture, railroad infrastructure, prison system, movie industry, and a fully mapped geography of cities, mountains, lakes, rivers, and farmlands. It also has a political history fraught with turmoil, one that mirrors Renaldo’s own struggle for independence and freedom, creating a coded, metaphoric, and imaginatively illustrated biography. Featuring an eclectic original score by Merge Records recording artists Shark Quest, Rocaterraniaunveils Kuhler's stunning creation, intricately dovetailed with the powerful story of his life. The award-winning Rocaterrania has screened on regional PBS and at more than fifty film festivals, museums, and cinemas in New York, London, Berlin, Brussels, Montreal, Vancouver, Buenos Aires, and elsewhere around the world. Awards:Best Documentary Feature, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, 2009Best Film of the Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC, 2010Southern Lens Award, Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC, 2010Special Jury Prize for Original Music, RiverRun International Film Festival, W-S, NC, 2009 Reviews: "A weird delight." Variety "An endless flow of visions and experiences guided by Kuhler’s voice; a single trip to the loving and overwhelming imagination of an unexpected artist." Buenos Aires Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente 2010 "Prepare to be astonished...a film - and a man - you will never forget." The Globe and Mail (Vancouver, BC) "Fascinating documentary." San Jose Metro "Lush, penetrating feature-length portrait." Indy Week (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) “The secret world of Renaldo Kuhler is about to go public." The New York Times "A fascinating must see for dreamers." Vancouver Observer "One man's complex journey into his mind." CJSF Radio (Vancouver, BC) "Truly inventive documentary." Review Vancouver

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