Photo: Michael Jacobs's Audience of One
In the press notes for his documentary Audience of One, director Michael Jacobs says of his subject, Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky, "[I] truly admire him for his creative vision, his spiritual mentoring and his ability to exist with humor in his own bizarre world." News to these eyes because, every way Jacobs slices it, this tongue-chanting California preacher-cum-grand delusional Christian film producer comes off as a certified loon. Better to return to the first part of Jacobs's sentence to grasp the true sentiment conveyed by his fly-on-the-wall unfiction: "But I remain fascinated by Gazowsky…" It's the documentary as hands-off science project, and another in the long line of Evangelical freak shows that exist almost purely for the delectation and delight of the perceived secular masses—give the geeks some rope and watch 'em hang 'emselves. Keith Uhlich
In the press notes for his documentary Audience of One, director Michael Jacobs says of his subject, Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky, "[I] truly admire him for his creative vision, his spiritual mentoring and his ability to exist with humor in his own bizarre world." News to these eyes because, every way Jacobs slices it, this tongue-chanting California preacher-cum-grand delusional Christian film producer comes off as a certified loon. Better to return to the first part of Jacobs's sentence to grasp the true sentiment conveyed by his fly-on-the-wall unfiction: "But I remain fascinated by Gazowsky…" It's the documentary as hands-off science project, and another in the long line of Evangelical freak shows that exist almost purely for the delectation and delight of the perceived secular masses—give the geeks some rope and watch 'em hang 'emselves. Keith Uhlich
