This film was born from our Heretics Interviews series, in which we film short video interviews featuring the artists with whom we've worked. But as we were preparing to shoot his, Richard Dailey made the decision to leave Paris for a house in the Lot region, in the south of France. Moved by the loss of this poet, artist, and friend, from our Paris scene, we followed him to the countryside, to conduct the interview amidst his newly chosen surroundings. To ask him why he'd left us, and what he'd found where he'd gone.

We went to spend a week with Richard in his home and studio, in the tiny village of Saint-Vincent-du-Pendit, where we followed him around with the camera and asked him about his new life, as well as the work he’d made, and the legacy he hoped to leave behind. He was generous enough to invite us candidly into his past, his present, and his thoughts about his future. Our conversations opened up more territory than we could cover in our traditional format, so the project expanded into a half-hour documentary exploring art, poetry, mortality, and Rich’s personal ghosts.

More about Richard Dailey and his work, including a pdf of his whole catalog, can be found on his website at afterart.com

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