Beautiful Losers

Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
Cast: Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Margaret Kilgallen, Geoff McFetridge, Jo Jackson, Chris Johansson, Harmony Korine, Shepard Fairey, Cheryl Dunn
Runtime: 91 minutes
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screening in: Spotlight Premieres

Screening Times

1:15 PM, Sunday March 9th - Paramount
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4:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Ritz 1
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Synopsis:
The most memorable cultural movements in history have always developed organically. More often than not, they have been the simple result of a few like-minded people coming together to create something newÉ usually for no other purpose than a common love of doing it. In the early 1990's, a loose-knit group of American artists, many just out of their teens, unwittingly started just such a movement. Rooted in the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, surf, graffiti, punk and hip-hop, they created art that reflected the alternative 'do-it-yourself' lifestyles they led.Over the last decade these artists and the subcultures they sprang from have become not only popular, but have sparked the most influential cultural movement of our generation. BEAUTIFUL LOSERS is a theatrical documentary film that explores the creative ethos behind this growing movement through a collective portrait of ten of these artists.

Director's Bio:
Aaron Rose: DirectorAaron Rose is a 34-year-old artist, writer and independent curator currently living in Los Angeles. For ten years he worked as owner/director of the highly influential Alleged Gallery in New York. The gallery was responsible for breaking the careers of many visual artists that are now considered the leading edge of contemporary art. Rose worked as a producer for MTV on-air promotions for two years working with artists and filmmakers such as Mark Gonzales, Rita Ackermann, Harmony Korine and Mike Mills. He is co-curator of a large-scale museum exhibition titled 'Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture' which has been touring the world. In addition to curating and publishing, Rose is co-editing a quarterly free magazine (ANP Quarterly), organizing smaller exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide and hosting the show Art Talk on VBS.TV.Joshua Leonard: Co-directorAs an actor, Joshua Leonard has appeared in over 30 movies including such memorable films as The Blair Witch Project, Things Behind the Sun, Men of Honor and Live From Baghdad. In 2005 Joshua made his directorial debut with The Youth In Us, starring Lukas Haas and Kelli Garner, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He is currently producing Live From Death Row -- a biopic of author, political prisoner, death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Joshua began his career working with documentarians and experimental filmmakers at Mystic Fire Video. There, he was involved with the production of films on such subjects as famed beat poet Alan Ginsburg, the Dalai Lama and comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.