Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout (1987)

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout

1987

Documentary

Synopsis

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout is a film about legendary folk artist Howard Finster of Summerville, northwest Georgia. At the age of 60, after forty years as a Baptist preacher and "small motor repairman", Finster heeded the call to "paint sacred art". In a tour-de-force of self styled "talking art", Finster describes the prophetic dreams, spiritual inspirations and visionary experiences that led him to become a painter. His work was selected in 1984 to represent the United States in the prestigious Venice Biennale

Credits

Director

Hazen Robert Walker

Cast

Howard Finster as Himself

Crew

Dale Arbour (Additional Photography)

John Marsten (Additional Photography)

Hazen Robert Walker (Director of Photography)

Hazen Robert Walker (Editor)

Elizabeth Fine (Producer)

Elizabeth Fine (Sound)