HE DREAMS OF GIANTS

For 30 years, legendary filmmaker Terry Gilliam struggled to make a screen adaptation of Don Quixote, including an abandoned attempt chronicled in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA. Gilliam never gave up and neither did the documentarians. HE DREAMS OF GIANTS is an epic and stunning culmination of all their efforts, and one of the most intense meditations on the nature and horror of making art ever seen on screen.

Combining immersive verité footage of Gilliam’s production with intimate interviews and archival footage from the director’s entire career, the documentary is a revealing character study of a late-career artist, and an examination on the value of creativity in the face of mortality.