Alasdair Gray A Life in Progress

Alasdair Gray is one of the giants of Scottish Arts gaining a reputation as a great writer artist notorious drunkard irascible interviewee and controversial essayist In this intimate portrait filmed over the course of 15 years he has allowed himself to be filmed creating work that has become part of the living heritage of Scotland This feature length documentary gets behind the hype revealing a character who is by turns incisive chaotic and laugh out loud funny There is no one better that Alasdair if you want to understand the cultural drive for independence