Lipsett Diaries

Lipsett Diaries

14 mins | Animation | Oct. 10, 2010

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

Lipsett Diaries

14 mins | Animation | Oct. 10, 2010

Lipsett Diaries
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Les journaux de Lipsett
Directors Theodore Ushev
Writers Chris Robinson

Cast

Xavier Dolan

as Narrator

Samuel Jacques

as (voice)