Ovartaci - An Artist in a Psychiatric Hospital
Ovartaci - kunstner på psykiatrisk hospital
His name was Louis Marcussen, but he called himself Ovartaci. He did his painter’s apprenticeship in Ebeltoft, and in 1923 emigrated from Denmark to Argentina, where he became mentally ill. Six years later he returned and was committed to a mental hospital, where he produced a huge amount of art until his death in 1985. Starting with his paintings and sculptures, created in tribute to femininity, the film describes Ovartaci’s metamorphosis and self-inflicted sex change.