Red Clay Pictures: "Sawyerville"

Steve Sawyer, hustler, marginally successful illustratorPiss up a rope (updated below)
Putting a face to right-wing Christian commercial art: Cliff Vaughn (2005), Sawyerville [hour-long feature documentary], Red Clay Pictures [Nashville, Tennessee], online at home.comcast.net/~redclaypictures (accessed 20-Aug-07).


Steve Sawyer paints unusual Christian imagery (inadvertent send-ups of fundamentalist faith) – And I can't imagine what this documentary about Sawyer must be like. The film is a good example of one that you might want to see but never will.

On the other hand, the film cost the director Cliff Vaughn a hundred bucks to make [PDF file], and apparently, much of the film depicts the Sawyer family's troubles in running their business Art For God – despite Sawyer's degree in advertising and experience in that profession. Which may suggest the film is only a home-movie about a hustling, marginally successful commercial illustrator.


UPDATE, Monday, January 7, 2008: The Art For God website now includes information about the Sawyerville documentary. The director Cliff Vaughn says in a statement about the film:

Steve constantly surprised me by things he said and did, and I think he’ll surprise you too. Just when you think he’s safely in a box, he shows you he’s not.

That’s his world. It's larger than religions and denominations, larger than canvases and cameras, larger than debts and doubts.

His world, their world, is Sawyerville, and I hope the documentary, though bound by time and space, will reveal to you most of its broad strokes, some of its tiny details, and all of its creative conviction.

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