MY AUTONOMOUS NEIGHBOR
ABOUT
The subject of My Autonomous Neighbor is the outsider artist, post-psychedelic philosopher and compulsive knick-knack collector, Fred "Tate " Billings. Tate spends his waking hours creating playful work about hidden dimensions and galactic time travel using clip art, found objects, distressed boxes and automatic drawing. Inspired by Tate's techniques, the film uses the collage format to create a layered portrait with surprising twists and turns. As he journeys from his ramshackle house in the Catskills to New York City, the Maine coast, and the battlefields of Gettysburg, Tate excavates personal and historic mysteries, both real and imagined, to fuel his creative momentum. In the end, he boldly hurtles towards an unexpected destination ... a place where no man has gone before.
Michel Negroponte is an award winning filmmaker who has been making feature length documentaries for more than 40 years. His films include SPACE COAST (1979), RESIDENT EXILE (1981), SILVER VALLEY (1984), JUPITER’S WIFE (1994), NO ACCIDENT (1996), W.I.S.O.R. (2000), METHADONIA (2005), I’M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE (2009), AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHELLE MAREN (2014), and MY AUTONOMOUS NEIGHBOR (2018). He has also produced a dozen films including CHILDREN UNDERGROUND which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001. Michel has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate film programs at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Temple University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
CREDITS
Gut Maddin
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