![]() The film premiered at the 29th Chicago Underground Film Festival on July 29th 2022. The filmmakers also interviewed a large number of collaborators and fans of The Residents (both past and present), including Matt Groening (fan and creator of The Simpsons), Les Claypool (of Primus), collaborators past and present including Roland Sheehan, Maggie Swaton (the former Peggy Honeydew), Molly Harvey, Nolan Cook, Eric Drew Feldman, and all four founding members of The Cryptic Corporation Hardy Fox, Homer Flynn, Jay Clem and John Kennedy - the latter two of whom have remained otherwise entirely uninvolved with the activities of Cryptic since they left the company in 1982.ĭuring production, director Don Hardy also assisted The Residents with production of their own video material, including lead singer Randy Rose's video series In My Room and RandyLand he would go on to assist the group in shooting early footage for their feature film Triple Trouble, in 2016 Hardy's work on the film was first seen in the " Double Trouble Trailer" released in 2017. Much of the restored footage was taken from second-generation copies on degraded and often long-obsolete video formats for whatever reason, the filmmakers did not access the original film negatives for most of the Ralph Records video material, which had been donated to the Pacific Film Archive. In order to make the documentary, the production team began a detailed and expensive process of digitizing and restoring The Residents' vast archives of sound and visual media, an operation which was partially crowdfunded via a campaign on Indiegogo. At the time, The Residents were on tour with their 40th Anniversary show The Wonder of Weird footage from this tour is featured recurrently throughout the film. ![]() ![]() Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents was conceived in 2012 by producers Don Hardy, Barton Bishoff and Josh Keppel. ![]()
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