Solo

Few men could claim the scope, breadth and versatility of late 20th and early 21st century artist Polish Boguslaw Schaeffer. A visionary who raised the concept of "renaissance man" to a new plateau, Schaeffer held court in the arenas of graphic design, filmmaking, electronica composition and playwriting, commanding equal respect in each. Yet oddly, Schaeffer opted at an early age to remain well out of the limelight, rendering much of the general public largely ignorant of his work and his plays nearly impossible to publish thanks to his lack of recognition. Maciej Pisarek's documentary Solo operates on two distinct planes: on one, it ventures into the professional and personal world of Schaeffer for a quintessentially unique biographical portrait of this extraordinary man, while on another, it pays homage to an artist's creative process, and the paths via which he searches for the "absolute" form of artistic expression as he ventures from endeavor to endeavor. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi