Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe

Director Harry Kim goes through eight haphazard years filled with mayhem to follow and deliver a portrait of David Choe, a young near-schizophrenic street artist that devises numerous criminal schemes that afford him to hitchhike across the globe. Choe skirts the legal constraints of society to "freely" create his art. His nonchalant law-breaking style lands him in jail several times leading to his eventual demise in solitary confinement in a Tokyo prison cell. He resurfaces with a radically religious agenda and returns home with hope to overcome his criminal temptations and repair his severed relationships. We see Choe's unwillingness to grow up, his struggle to make it as an artist and his fight to hold on to his sanity for his life and burgeoning art career. Harry captures the complexity of David's life through a collage work of archived childhood home videos, still photographs, intimate artwork, animation and eight years of footage shot on the road with the artist.