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  • Pigweed Philosopher: The Untethered Zen of Kimball Johnson (2009)
  • 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Pigweed Philosopher: The Untethered Zen of Kimball Johnson (2009)
90 min | Documentary, Biography

Kimball Johnson is a non-conformist with a heart-and someone willing to lose everything to tilt at windmills. In the style of esteemed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker Gabriel Lakey spent six years following this...See moreKimball Johnson is a non-conformist with a heart-and someone willing to lose everything to tilt at windmills. In the style of esteemed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker Gabriel Lakey spent six years following this true American original. Some might call Kimball Johnson crazy, some might call him foolish, and others might call him enlightened, but pursuing his passions headlong without a harness can bear a heavy price. Would you be willing to lose everything you owned for the feeling of having tried and lost? Is this pigweed philosopher an unconventional genius who figured out that life is best lived at the outer fringes or is he just the quintessential Don Quixote of broken dreams who never found his way home? Written by Jeffrey Gold, Corpus Polymedia See less
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Jan 20, 2009 (United States)
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