{"product_id":"henry-darger-jessica-yu-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal-2004","title":"Henry Darger \/ Jessica Yu — In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal promotional film \/ exhibition poster. Wellspring Media \/ Diorama Films, 2004. 43 × 61 cm. Offset-printed on paper. Folded as issued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good vintage condition; folded as issued, with visible fold lines, light handling wear, minor surface marks and soft creasing. Presents well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal promotional poster for Jessica Yu’s 2004 documentary \u003cem\u003eIn the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger\u003c\/em\u003e, issued for the theatrical release. Recto with full-bleed reproduction of Darger imagery — a young girl standing before large winged creatures in watercolour — and theatrical release dates across US cities. Verso printed as a fold-out press sheet with film text, production credits, Darger images, stills of the room, theatre listings, and American Folk Art Museum reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarger’s work entered public view only after his death in 1973, when his Chicago room revealed an enormous private archive: the 15,000-page \u003cem\u003eRealms of the Unreal\u003c\/em\u003e manuscript and hundreds of drawings and watercolours. Yu’s film moved that material into another system — animation, narration, cinema, theatrical release — with Dakota Fanning narrating and Darger’s images partially brought into motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis poster sits at the point where the room becomes public image. A private manuscript becomes archive; the archive becomes documentary; the documentary becomes cinema; cinema returns to paper as publicity. The verso is especially strong: not just a poster back, but a distribution surface carrying press language, schedule, institutional framing and image fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA film poster, but also a document of Darger’s transfer into wider visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53966522777938,"sku":"DARGER-WELLSPRING-POST-2004","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Darger_Henry._Show_poster_-_In_the_realms_of_the_Unreal._2004_copy_bef66fb7-fdb6-4de4-afe9-e793910c7fcd.jpg?v=1783630584","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/henry-darger-jessica-yu-in-the-realms-of-the-unreal-2004","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}