Barneys Wall (2019)

What makes a rebel This 78 minute documentary probes the psyche of badboy publisher and free speech warrior Barney Rosset whose midcentury legal and cultural battles smashed sexual and political taboos in the United States unleashing the counterculture of the 1960s and introducing millions of young intellectuals to the most radical currents in literature film theater and politics In his late eighties coming to terms with his life Barney Rosset began to obsessively sculpt an autobiographical 15 x 22 surreal wall mural embedded with jewellike vignettes crafted out of found objects each a clue to the conflicts and obsessions that drove Barneys lifetime rebellion against authority A cast of artists a neurologist and a shaman connect the clues and piece together Barneys life