Wild Combination A Portrait of Arthur Russell is a documentary film about musician Arthur Russell. Released theatrically in 2008, the film was generally well received by critics, winning various awards at international film festivals. Its world premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival Panorama, and its theatrical premieres were at the IFC Center in New York and the ICA in London.

Due to the lack of actual interview footage of Russell, the film uses artificial archival materials of an actor wearing Russells clothes, filmed around Iowa and New York City. Filmed using the outmoded VHS and Super8 formats, the films recreations are inexact reconstructions of Russells life, attempting to produce a dreamlike quality similar to Russells music.Wild Combination begins with interviews of Russells parents discussing their youngest offsprings childhood. The film describes how Russell as a young boy is obsessed with Timothy Leary and insecure about his acne. Leaving Iowa for San Francisco in the late sixties, he joins a Buddhist collective and befriends Allen Ginsburg. Russell decides to move to New York in the early seventies, where he starts working as the musical director of the Kitchen and becomes part of the downtown scene of artists, sharing an apartment building with Allen Ginsburg and Richard Hell. Russell engages in nearly every music scene the city has to offer disco at David Mancusos Loft, rock at CBGB, minimal composition at the Kitchen, and Allen Ginsbergs poetry recitations. In 1978, Russell begins dating Tom Lee, whom he stays with until his AIDSrelated death in 1992. ........

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