Independent Lens
Season 14 Episode 8 - Beauty Is Embarrassing
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
Episodes in Season 14
As Goes Janesville
60 min
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
60 min
Love Free or Die
60 min
Solar Mamas
60 min
Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
60 min
Soul Food Junkies
60 min
Beauty Is Embarrassing
60 min
The Revisionaries
60 min
The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
60 min
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
60 min
The House I Live In; As I Am
60 min
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
60 min
The Island President
60 min
The Undocumented
60 min
Seeking Asian Female
60 min
The Invisible War
60 min
Detropia
60 min
The Revolutionary Optimists
60 min
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
60 min
The Waiting Room
60 min
The Graduates
60 min
Young Lakota
60 min
Playwright: From Page to Stage
60 min
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
60 min
