Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration

"Don Barry, A Quixotic Exploration" is a playful feature, goofy and sincere, cheerful and yet slightly melancholic, imaginatively concocted by two working artists - Paul Smart, the ludic director and the octogenarian Barry Gerson, once a filmmaker himself but now mining many mediums, including performance. Shot for the most part in Mexico where Gerson as a wide-eyed Don Quixote travels in search of his Dulcinea, "Don Barry" is an original and engaging collaboration that deals in no particular order with life, mortality and the adventure of discovery.

Laurence Kardish FilmColumbia Fest, former director MOMA Film Program.

"One of the last surviving members of the heroic generation of independent lyric film artists, Barry Gerson's films are works of almost unbearable aesthetic precision. Paul Smart's documentary follows him to Mexico, as a visiting professor. Soon the narrative melds with memory and imagination, as Gerson becomes a knight-errant in his own Quixotic tale... This is a strange and wonderful film!"

Raymond Foye Hanuman Books The Brooklyn Rauil Estate of Jordan Belson.