Alcoholic Outsider Artist: Flesh Eating Meat Bats

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Flesh Eating Meat Bats

Update on Film Project

Parker Lanier's artwork is featured in the full-length documentary film produced by Sherri VandenAkker and Josh Hays, titled My Name Was Bette: Life and Death of an Alcoholic, planned for release in Spring, 2009. The film examines the development and progression of alcoholism in women, and uses VandenAkker's mother, Bette, who died from alcoholism in September, 2007 as a case study.

Lanier's artwork is used throughout the film to convey the psychological state of the alcoholic--from active addiction to sobriety. The work earned high praise from audience members who viewed the rough cut on November 23, 2008 at Springfield College, School of Human Services, Boston campus.