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Peter Sillen

“(About I Am Secretly An Important Man) When I started working on it, I really wanted to make a film that dealt with his art and his work.”

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    I AM SECRETLY AN IMPORTANT MAN

    PETER SILLEN United States, 2009

    Jesse Bernstein, a Seattle native who crossed paths with Nirvana, gained the dubious title as the “godfather of grunge” after a life, as this revealing doc recounts, where hardship and crazy diversions were common currency. Killing himself at 40, he now seems a quintessential doomed American artist.

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