United Kingdom / Canada 2024, 88 min, English, Hebrew & English subtitles

In 2019, artist Sam Cox bought a mansion in the English countryside. Stripping it bare and painting all the walls white, he then spent two years covering every inch of it with black marker doodles—whimsical, surreal scribbles dubbed “Spaghetti Graffiti.” A stop-motion film capturing this endeavor propelled “Mr. Doodle” to global fame. What began as a total and imaginative artistic vision spirals into a breakdown, forcing a battle between his artistic passion and his mental health. As his loved ones grow concerned for his health, Sam remains resolute, and the film, deftly maneuvering between untamed creativity and carefully-measured balance, offers a remarkably honest attempt to find out if balance is something Sam can ever achieve.

Previous Festivals: SXSW, Sheffield

Screening Schedule:
  • Tue 27.05 19:00, Azrieli Sarona Gallery Purchase
  • Wed 28.05 20:30, Cinematheque 1 Purchase

Jaimie D’Cruz began in journalism, launching Touch magazine in the early ’90s. He transitioned to documentary filmmaking, earning Oscar and BAFTA nominations in 2011 for Exit Through the Gift Shop with Banksy. That year, he also founded his independent production company, Acme.

Ed Perkins is an Academy Award®-nominated (“Black Sheep”) documentary filmmaker whose films have won numerous international awards. He has worked exclusively at Lightbox for the past five years where he has made many of his films, and has previously been named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.

Production: Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn
Production Company: Acme Studios, Lightbox
Editing: Andrew Hulme
Music: Kevin Pollard