Long Live My Happy Head (2022)
3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
A touching and unexpectedly uplifting love story about a Scottish comic book artist with a brain tumour, who uses his art to communicate his experience of cancer. What would you do if you were told you had a dramatically life-shortening illness when you were 32 years old? Start making comic books about it of course! Well, that's what Gordon did anyway. Gordon is a Scottish comic book artist with a big bushy beard, very expressive eyebrows - oh, and an inoperable, incurable brain tumour. By making autobiographical comics about his experience, he is able to communicate his thoughts and reactions to cancer in a medium and a language that is disarming and accessible to all. 'Long Live My Happy Head' is a film about cancer and comic books, but it's fundamentally a love story. We journey with Gordon and his long-distance partner Shawn through one of the most difficult times of their lives, to see them emerge stronger than ever. Through intimately captured observational footage, interviews and animations created from Gordon's comic illustrations, the film immerses the audience in Gordon's world and reveals how art, love and a sense of humour can soothe our deepest fears of mortality and losing the people we care most about. - Directors:
- Will Hewitt, Austen McCowan
- Writers:
- Will Hewitt, Austen McCowan
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest