黑暗的艺术这部专题纪录片详细剖析了具有争议的画家和表演艺术家Bryan Lewis Saunders 布莱恩·刘易斯·桑德斯。布莱恩以每天画自画像而出名,到目前为止数量超过10,000张。布莱恩是一个复杂的个体并有承认有心理变态的倾向,他说他的黑暗与复杂的经历塑造了他,讲述了他是如何用艺术来帮助驯服他内心的恶魔。布莱恩著名的在不同毒品作用后的自画像“毒系列“已经使他在互联网拥有了世界各地的忠实粉丝团。
In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sonal film, complete with intertitles, crackly sound-track and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.- Written by Michael Brooke