Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist collective Gelitin, which since the 1990s has shattered the borders of "good taste" again and again with extravagant actions and installations. Interviews with old companions and artist friends in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are linked with anarchically montaged Gelitin archive material: intense, transgressive, experimental, gaudily colorful, funny, and virulent.
Direction
Christlieb mirrors Gelitin's chaos in her own anarchic editing.
Production
Archive footage so transgressive you'll question legality.
Writing
Narrative hunts artists who literally disappeared from history.
Director
Angela Christlieb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gelitin's 'The B-Thing' allegedly involved secretly installing a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center in 2000—documentation remains disputed and partially destroyed.
The film captures a dying era of pre-social media transgression, when shock required physical presence rather than Instagram performance.
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