REVIEW: Have You See the Listers? is a raw revealing doco about the personal price paid for great art

REVIEW: Have You See the Listers? is a raw and revealing Australian documentary about the personal price paid for great art. Catch it while you can during a limited run in cinemas.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LISTERS? (M)

Rating: three and a half stars (3.5 out of 5)

Director: Eddie Martin (All This Mayhem)

Starring: Anthony Lister.

When having it all can mean losing so much

An emotionally raw, yet carefully constructed documentary, Have You Seen the Listers? offers an intriguing portrait of one of this country’s most vital contemporary artists.

Anthony Lister has been referred to in the past as ‘Brisbane’s Banksy,’ due in part to the omnipresence of his work on metropolitan streets, back alleys and railways lines up and down the east coast (you’ve probably seen a Lister original or two in the open air without ever knowing it).

Anthony Liste in a scene from the documentary Have You Seen the Listers (2018).

A camera appears to have almost always been present to chronicle not just Lister’s meteoric flight to international fame and notoriety, but also the widening distance at which it has put his young family.

This compelling footage is edited to serve both as a retrospective overview of the artist’s ever-evolving talent, and also a painful personal diary of losses which may never be regained.

Though the doco can get achingly personal at times (particularly when it comes to Lister’s fractured relationships with his wife and three children), Have You Seen the Listers? remains more of a revelatory experience than a wearing one.

Have You Seen the Listers? is now showing for a very limited season. Check your local guides for dates and times.

Anthony Lister in a scene from the documentary Have You Seen the Listers (2018)

Originally published as REVIEW: Have You See the Listers? is a raw revealing doco about the personal price paid for great art