Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)

Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann has devoted much of his career to recording an alternative account of pop culture, one that gives the true pioneers their due and exposes the political motivations behind the construction of history. From Imagine the Sound (a portrait of the free jazz movement) to Comic Book Confidential (a study of comic book artists) to Twist (which examined dance crazes), Mann has revised and invigorated the way we look at pop culture. His latest, Tales of the Rat Fink, examines the career of what may be his ultimate subject: designer and graphic artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth.

In Mann’s eyes, Roth is one of the first and most subversive DIY artists – a proto-culture jammer. Roth’s career, which began in the fifties, was driven by an instinctive urge to remake and remodel the products of mass culture to reflect his own sensibility – one vigorously opposed to the egregiously complacent,

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