Greg Harrison
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About
Harrison’s first two features, Groove and November, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and sold to Sony Pictures Classics for theatrical and DVD distribution. Groove, a comedy chronicling one night in the San Francisco rave scene, garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination. November, an experimental drama shot on digital video in 15 days starring Courteney Cox, won the cinematography award at Sundance and Harrison was named one of 10 Directors To Watch by Variety.
Harrison has also collaborated with acclaimed Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, first on a fake trailer for an absurdist Hollywood remake of Caligula, featuring Helen Mirren, Milla Jovovich and Courtney Love, among others. It premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2005, played the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and is pail of the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. The second was a satirical documentary Harrison wrote and directed about the life and death of Vezzoli in the art world, done in the style of an E! True Hollywood Story. It premiered at London’s Tate Modern in 2006 and continues to be shown at museums and galleries internationally.
Radioactive Boy Scout
The Radioactive Boy Scout is based on the true story of Brian Boyd*, a relentlessly optimistic 16-year-old outsider from a broken home in a Detroit suburb who, in 1995, attempted to build the core of a nuclear reactor in his mother’s backyard shed. He was driven largely by the naïve hope that his invention might somehow repair his broken family and give him the attention and recognition he so desperately desired.