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The Book of the Grotesque
THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE is a quilted assembly of a critically acclaimed trilogy of films that have ensemble casts, are black and white, multilingual, multiracial, and focused on the shared human experience of marginalization, isolation and longing. They are collectively a portrait of Chicago, which has been called the most American of American cities. The film's title is drawn from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, a landmark work written in Chicago.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DANIEL NEARING
ORIGINAL SCORE BY PAUL BHASIN
EDITED BY PHILIP LARKIN AND KAT QUINTIAN
IN PRODUCTION 2025-2026






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