His drawings and sketches are exhibited and sold worldwide. Beck, Wilco, Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam have recorded his songs. But beneath Daniel Johnston's success as an artist and musician is an incredible story of genius touched by madness: diagnosed as bipolar disorder, Johnston has spent the last three decades of his life in-and-out of mental institutions.

Told through a compelling combination of interviews, home movies and performance footage, the film chronicles his life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

Reviews
"Jeff Feuerzeig, who won the best-director award at the 2005 Sundance festival, cobbles together a moving portrait of the artist as his own ghost, using a wealth of material provided by Mr. Johnston, from home movies to audiocassette diaries to dozens of original, and often heartbreakingly beautiful, songs." – The New York Times