Red Clay Pictures: "Sawyerville"
Posted by 3Dsound at Monday, August 20, 2007 1:32 PM and is filed under right-wing Christian commercial art,Illustration,christian fundamentalism,Steve Sawyer,Film,piss up a rope 
Piss 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
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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