The music you hear here is the soundtrack of a groundbreaking biographical film which was never made.. We have almost no information about the circumstances of the birth and childhood of the protagonist, Rufus. Rumour has it that his mother was a Turkish belly dancer and his father a Vietnamese exiled Caodaist priest. This is the religion that, along with Jesus, Moses and Buddha, also claims Jean d'Arc, Gandhi, Lenin and, for example, Charlie Chaplin as its own prophets. He was brought up by his grandmother after his parents divorced. He spent his school years in extreme poverty, and was only able to attend university thanks to a scholarship, which he earned for his exceptional intellectual ability and his extraordinary musical sensitivity. To help with his desperate financial situation, he worked in nightclubs while at university and once volunteered as a test subject for a newly developed potency-enhancing drug. This turned out to be a fatal mistake. As an unfortunate consequence of the test, Rufus was never again able to handle intense emotional situations. In every such situation, he would have a seizure, his eyes would widen, his face would puff up - while taking on a surprisingly bluish hue -, suddenly he started talking backwards.   The unfortunate drug experiment took a dramatic turn in his life. He was thrown out of university - unable to pass his exams - unable to get a job, and in time even simple grocery shopping became unfeasible. Needless to say, he became unfit for any kind of relationship. In desperation, she tried all kinds of therapies, tried every conceivable method of traditional and alternative medicine, visited medicine-men and quack doctors, and even went to an ayahuasca ceremony. Unfortunately, all efforts failed. He became irredeemably depressed, started drinking and then taking drugs, and even contemplated suicide. Once, when he had a seizure in a busy pedestrian street, some onlookers mistook his agony for a bizarre performance and threw money at him. That was when his attention turned to art. He began to research and study the work of the most exciting and radical artists with unprecedented enthusiasm. It became clear to him that his only chance for a life worth living was to be able to transform his torment, his everyday hell, into art. He tried performing arts, performing in shabby clubs and shabby community centres, but unfortunately he never made a breakthrough, never succeeded. He lived on mind-altering drugs by day, performed wherever he could at night, and was haunted by strange dreams at night, in which imagined discourses with his idols were mixed with a heavy dose of naughty content. Rufus's ordeal ended with an unexpected phone call from New York. Yoko Ono was on the other end of the line. As it turned out, Rufus had been discovered. A small but important group of artists took notice and, thanks to their support, Rufus became a fairly well-regarded Fluxus performance artist. Whether this improved his mood, his quality of life, and whether he ever managed to find happiness and lose his virginity, is unfortunately not addressed in the film. And as we know, in the end it was never made.

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