The Art of Failure

 This is a feature documentary about the life of Chuck Connelly, a brilliant yet enigmatic painter who had great success as a young artist in the art boom of the 1980’s but who has perpetuated a long downward spiral in his career due to ego, drugs, women, and alcohol. He now is increasingly fearful of his fate. Driven by desperation, Connelly comes up with several crazy schemes to sell his work to galleries and stage a comeback in the art world.

 
The film also exposes the inner workings of the art world - the largest unregulated industry on earth. But the focus is on Chuck Connelly, a working class guy from Pittsburgh with “traditional” notions of art being about personal expression and craftsmanship; notions not fashionable in the elite art world.