Director Sam Cullman discussed his film "Art and Craft" with Dr. Stephen Marder and Dr. Andrew Leuchter following the screening of the film at The Friends of the Semel Institute's Open Mind event on June 22, 2015 at Melnitz Hall, UCLA.
The film follows Mark Landis who was diagnosed as a teenager with schizophrenia and multiple behavioral disorders in the 1970's. Landis had endured a life time of marginalization as a person living with mental illness and his elaborate thirty-year con of art forgery had become a means to change all that, allowing him to regain control and finally be given respect. He found his calling and over time, Landis became 'addicted to philanthropy.'
