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This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
Keywords
west virginia
infatuation
character study
music documentary
Casts

Daniel Johnston
Self
Bill Johnston
Self
Margie Johnston
Self
Mabel Johnston
Self
Jeff Tartakov
Self
Kathy McCarty
Self
Dick Johnston
Self
Laurie Allen
Self
Sally Johnston Reid
Self

Gibby Haynes
Self
Brian Beattie
Self

David Fair
Self

Jad Fair
Self
Jason Nightmare
Self

Thurston Moore
Self

Louis Black
Self
Ken Lieck
Self
Don Goede
Self
John Pochna
Self
David Thornberry
Self
Peter Zaremba
Self

Matt Groening
Self
Blair Sterrett
Self

Kurt Cobain
Self (Archival footage)

Woody Allen
Self (Archival footage)

Brian Wilson
Self (Archival footage)
Crews

Jeff Feuerzeig
Director
Wayne Bell
Sound Recordist
Adam Joseph
Sound Recordist

James Lebrecht
Sound Designer

James Lebrecht
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dan Olmsted
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Patti Tauscher
Supervising Sound Editor
Dennis Towns
Sound Recordist

Jonah Loop
Visual Effects Producer
Robert Rossello
Visual Effects Supervisor
Andrew Troy
Sound Recordist
Henry S. Rosenthal
Producer

Jeff Feuerzeig
Writer

Daniel Johnston
Music

Ted Hope
Executive Producer
David Donaldson
Coordinating Producer
Fortunato Procopio
Director of Photography
Tyler Hubby
Editor
Gregg Gibbs
Art Direction
Jill McGraw
Art Direction
Backdrops & Posters


