“A film festival favorite…here is a riveting documentary about a remarkable life…a recluse who used her unforgettable work to be in conversation with the world. Across my 33 years as a journalist, Alexandra Branyon is among the best storytellers I have encountered.”
- Faith Middleton, WNPR, Host Executive Producer
“We see some really great submissions. Treasures from the Rubble is one of them. A fantastic film. Really beautifully shot. Great production value. Great story. We fall in love with the character.”
- Leslie Ann Coles, Founder/Artistic Director, The Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
“Europeans revere the Outsider Artist and they can’t get enough of stories about American bohemians. France in particular will go for Treasures.”
- Joseph Coyle (former Time Inc Editor), Paris
“In Treasures from the Rubble, award-winning filmmaker Alexandra Branyon brings to life the story of Alabama-born Lois Wilson, a charmingly eccentric and prolific self-taught New York outsider artist and her decade long association with Fayette native Jack Black, retired newspaperman turned art collector, advocate and curator. Their shared vision of public space for outsider art to be exhibited and made available to the community, which would also provide creative learning opportunities for children, gave birth to the Fayette Museum of Art, one of Alabama’s most unique and significant cultural treasures. With a little help from legendary artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Alexandra narrates this wonderful southern story – a fitting tribute to Lois and Jack and the legacy they have left us.”
- Jim Harrison, III, Chairman, Alabama State Council on the Arts
The story of an art rebel who broke all rules for Southern women in order to live alone up north so that she could fulfill her dreams of dedicating her life to the creation of her art and leaving an inspiring legacy to her small Alabama hometown by establishing an art museum there.
“From the wreckage of the world around me came my art…” - Lois Wilson