Musician Jarvis Cocker (most famous as the frontman for the British band Pulp) conducted some mightily enjoyable road trips through some major sites of self-taught so-called "outsider art" for UK television in 1998. The three-part series was originally broadcast on Channel 4 (where I originally saw it), but then it wasn't subsequently widely distributed. It's filled with tons of magical mosaic gardens and roadside religious propaganda as you might expect but it's very charming to see Cocker attempt to befriend and discover more about all manner of eccentric and visionary folk, whose works defy most generally accepted aesthetic norms and get down to the business of being totally weird.
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