The film portrays a heartbreaking and accurate depiction of a brilliant artist struggling with self-loathing and alcoholism.

“it seemed to me when i watched it that there was something deeply kind of profoundly heartbreaking about a guy who was brilliant and had contempt for himself and his own brilliance and the medium that he worked in and who was dying of alcoholism pretty obviously and pretty miserable”

The film aims to capture a multi-faceted reality about an artist navigating a powerful and hypocritical industry rather than focusing on credit disputes.

“what was it of interest to me was here's a guy who made most of the contributions that he made went uncredited and he didn't seem to care and then for one brief shining moment he said no no no no no this this can't go”