Screenings: February 28, 2:30 PM (Cam 12); March 2, 7:15 PM (Cam 12); March 3, 12:30 PM (Cam 12).
Renaldo Kuhler is a scientific illustrator with a lifelong project: his own nation, Roccaterania. With the same detail he uses to record the scale patterns of snakes or the curves of microscopic bones, he has designed an alphabet, fashion, architecture, movie industry, and all the other possible details of his imaginary country. It even has a history, one which parallels his own, from the early years of monarchy in his childhood, through years of dictatorship as he worked to make his own ways in the world using self-discipline, to an era of democracy as he put together the life he’d always wanted. Now 76, Kuhler unfolds the tale of his life and Roccaterania’s history for us, offering a beautiful, up-close look at his unusual genius.