Jim McVicker: A Way of Seeing

In the summer of 2008, The Norwegian filmmaker Petter Granrud decided to make a documentary about a true artist. Granrud had heard from an American friend about Jim McVicker, a painter who lives and works in another northern place; the wild and woolly landscape of California’s “Lost Coast.“ This is the Pacific coast of Humboldt County, just south of the Oregon border -- a largely roadless, sparsely populated zone of giant trees and salty little towns. This film is Granrud’s exploration of Jim McVicker’s wo