(81 min; 2004; English)
Director: Jessica Yu

Recipient of the Best Documentary Feature Award, Ojai Film Festival 2004; and Best Documentary Feature Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2004

In The Realms Of The Unreal is an intriguing portrait of the double-life of outsider artist Henry Darger. By day Darger worked as a hospital janitor, and by night he toiled away in his Chicago apartment on his fantastical paintings and writings, which were only discovered upon his death in 1983. With actors reading from Darger's literary texts, alongside animated sequences of his artwork, Jessica Yu's documentary immerses us in the world of a reclusive individual's bizarre imagination.