Ken August Meyer’s “Angel Applicant” chronicles his battle against an incurable autoimmune disease: “Life is fleeting, and we can still find color and beauty in all the sadness.”
Ken August Meyer doesn't like the way he looks. In 2000, not long after he graduated from art school, Meyer was diagnosed with a rare, incurable autoimmune disease called scleroderma that hardened his skin, inflamed his joints, and posed threats to his organs.
But not just any documentary. Meyer had long been enchanted by the work of Paul Klee, an abstract artist who fled Nazi Germany when Hitler labeled him a degenerate in the 1930s. Klee, too, suffered from scleroderma. While living in isolation in Switzerland, he made his shifting appearance the subject of many paintings. With that historical kinship in mind, Meyer came up with the idea for
Meyer didn’t always know he’d be the star of his own film. At first he thought he’d profile other scleroderma patients. But tying their emotions to Klee’s felt inauthentic, and when he showed colleagues a “test piece” he did about his own story, they encouraged him to keep going. In the final years of his life, Klee became more prolific than ever. He cataloged each day of his condition with some kind of drawing, leaving behind what Meyer calls a “meticulous ledger.” Those works depict stiffening bodies and surreal deformities, a departure from thethat established Klee’s career.
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