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The Life of Sean DeLear (Online)
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Unclassified 18+
82 Mins | AustriaFormerly fronting L.A. post-punk band Glue, multidisciplinary queer Black artist Sean DeLear (sounds like “chandelier”) packed a helluva lot into a mere 52 years of life. Upon their passing from cancer in 2017, who better to pay tribute to their life's sprawling, polymath, gender-fluid magnificence than Viennese filmmaker Markus Zizenbacher, whom “Seandy” entrusted with their archive? A companion piece to DeLear’s posthumously published, unfiltered, highly explicit teenage diaries, I Could Not Believe It, Zizenbacher's film has a frantic punk energy, collaging materials galore from DeLear’s handheld video diaries and featuring interviews with fashion designer Rick Owens, actor and Bongwater founding member, Ann Magnuson, and Seandy’s former housemate, cult actor Susan Tyrrell (an Oscar nominee for 1972’s Fat City). While DeLear is sadly no longer with us, we can still learn from their example – this film delivers an object lesson in living life large, with multi-intersectional, punk rock aplomb!