For 20 years, conceptual artist David Greg Harth had a Bible that he carried with himself every single day, seeking signatures from the most culturally significant people in the world.
In this movie, director Pierre Guillet follows Harth as he finishes this project, standing in line to meet people, sometimes having conversations, often only getting an autograph, sometimes even getting interviews with people like Noam Chomsky to Kevin Smith.
Harth feels like this project has cost him some of his life. It certainly has been a quest, as his sweat and hands have warped the Bible and made it into a work of art transformed by the artist. What does it all mean? Does it mean anything? This feels like twenty years of creating something made of hours of standing and waiting and nerves as you approach famous people, so many of whom have no idea they are part of a piece of art.
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The MVD DVD release of The Book of Harth has commentary by Harth and Guillet, plus deleted scenes with Harth getting signatures from Bruce Springsteen, John Williams, O.J. Simpson, Andrew Cuomo, Stevie Wonder, Michael J. Fox and Julian Assange. You can get it from MVD.