** UPDATE: GUS VAN SANT IS SHOOTING A MOVIE ABOUT CALLAHAN’S LIFE TITLED “DON’T WORRY,  HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT”/  STARRING JOAQUIN PHOENIX!!!**

Award winning film on cartoonist John Callahan. At age 21 John is paralyzed from the waist down in a drunken car accident. His angry outlet becomes drawing, not the most obvious choice because he can hardly use his hands. With a raw style, pen clutched between his hands, he draws himself silly. His spot- on, mostly cynical and ruthless observations of mankind do not just gather acclaim. Protest-marches and angry letters are his share. When the presses had to be held at The Miami Herald because of a cartoon John drew in honour of MLK Jr Day- a little boy in pyjamas with a wet spot on his pyjamas saying: “Mommie I had a dream”- he was fired. This is a film on will-power. John blasts his way through life, does not want to be ignored and most of all doesn’t want to be a thankful, humble disabled person. His cartoon “Cunnilingus accident”, starring himself, choking between the legs of a naked woman sitting on his face, tells it all. John has a complicated relationship with women, they sometimes look at him with a look of compassion, “the pity-look”, and at moments like these John wants the earth to swallow him whole. But he loves women and he has found his own way of getting close to them.

SEE THE FILM HERE:

https://vimeo.com/120037802

camera: Peter de Kock

sound: Eric Leek

editing: Bart van den Broek

producer: Selfmade Films

directed by: Simone de Vries

sounddesign: Eddy de Cloe