Top Shelf Productions is releasing the DVD of The Mindscape of Alan Moore this month. Writer, artist, and performer Alan Moore is “the world’s most critically acclaimed and widely admired creator of comic books and graphic novels.” The documentary film, produced in 2003, has appeared at film festivals and comic conventions around the world, and won a Special Recognition Award for “Creative Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking” at the San Francisco World Film Festival.
In DeZ Vylenz’s film, “we see a portrait of the artist as contemporary shaman, someone with the power to transform consciousness by means of manipulating language, symbols and images. The film leads the audience through Moore’s world with the writer himself as guide, beginning with his childhood background, following the evolution of his career as he transformed the comics medium, through to his immersion in a magical worldview where science, spirituality, and society are part of the same universe.”
The 78-minute film is available for $37.50 from Top Shelf’s web site.