By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tom Marksbury, professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences, co-directed a documentary that was honored in 2024 at the San Francisco Docfest. 

The film will have its Lexington premiere at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the Kentucky Theatre. The event will be a fund-raiser for the Faulkner Morgan Archive. The Writing Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department is presenting the event. 

The documentary, “Bob Morgan's Just Going to Tell Some Stories,” received the Grand Jury Prize for Excellence in Profiles. Co-directed by Grayson Tyler Johnson, “Stories” profiles Bob Morgan,  a Kentucky assemblage artist who discusses “art and garbage, sex and drugs, aids grief, cultural subversion and being an outsider turned community icon,” according to the Internet Movie Database. An online discussion of the documentary can be found here.  

 

"I started this project because I wanted to see if I could build a whole documentary around just one person, and Bob Morgan — as an artist, activist, historian and archivist and most of all raconteur — was the only personality big enough to do that,” Marksbury said. “He is large; he contains multitudes." 

The film received three sold-out showings at the Sidewalk Festival in Birmingham, Alabama, and will be featured this summer at the Georgia Film Festival, Marksbury said.