Maria Landova

While visiting his native country to shoot his first live-action film (PHI 1.618), animation filmmaker Theodore Ushev recounts the highlights of his life in Bulgaria and recalls the various underground artistic movements that have influenced him. Featuring archival footage, film clips and talking-head segments with friends and family, this fascinating documentary takes a personal and political dive into the teeming creative universe developed through experience with people and events by the award-winning director of LIPSETT DIARIES, BLIND VAYSHA and THE PHYSICS OF SORROW.

A counter-culture Bulgarian family, led by a former hippie-turned-messiah, lives in isolation in a basement in Sofia, rejecting societal norms while engaging in unconventional means to survive, as depicted over a decade.