By Chris Robinson
"Ballad of a skinny guy" explores the lifestyles, paintings and occasions of Ryan Larkin, a super Academy Award-nominated animator, whose brief movie "Walking," made in 1969, is taken into account some of the most influential lively motion pictures of all time. but, quickly after this early triumph, Larkin dropped from view and, whilst the writer unearths him thirty years later, he?s residing on welfare and panhandling for switch on a Montreal road nook. during this hugely own and deeply felt narrative, Chris Robinson examines Larkin's stricken profession and, in one of those twin biography, appears at his personal bothered relatives historical past, his alcoholism and look for redemption, which in lots of methods mirrors the tale of the bothered animator. right away unhappy, hopeful, and every now and then excruciatingly humorous, "Ballad of a skinny guy" is an incisive profile of an influential artist and a deeply felt meditation on what it capacity to take accountability for one?s existence and activities. The booklet features a bonus DVD that includes "Walking" and Larkin's 1972 "Street Musique," in addition to Chris Landreth's Oscar-winning movie concerning the animator, "Ryan" (2004).
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The festival gave me comfort, protection then; it gave me, me. Without it I was a shell. I had a home and a family, but I’d already been avoiding them for almost two years. I didn’t want to go back because at our home I felt like a failure; it housed the real me, not the festival fraud. I can’t remember it very clearly, but I decided to stay in the hotel one more night. It turned into one of the weird nights of that time, a night when I think I wanted to die… or maybe it wasn’t so dramatic. Maybe I just wanted to let go and become Ryan.
Somehow I envied him. He just unplugged himself from the world. I didn’t have that courage. I had few friends and continually changing staff at a job I faked my way into. And my wife? I was abusing her really. Not physically. I’d never laid a hand on her… but mentally. She had no idea who I was or who was gonna walk in the door each day. I lived in a world of extremes. I went from extreme anger to manic highs to absolute lethargy, as though the world could drop on me in a flash and I wouldn’t give a damn.
Who knows? As the days passed, I could see Ryan’s confidence growing. Andrei, Chris and Pjotr were really good to him. They were patient, and I remember that Chris, in particular, always tried to gently push Ryan to articulate his feelings about a work. I thought that was a nice gesture on his part. Other people might just say fuck it, let’s move 55 BALLAD OF A THIN MAN on. By the end of the week, Ryan was more confident in his opinions. Instead of giving monosyllabic feedback, he was digging deeper.