'Typist Artist Pirate King' puts forgotten artist Audrey Amiss on the map. Inspired by her extensive archive of diaries, letters and art, the film weaves real events into an imagined journey as Audrey goes on a road trip with her psychiatric nurse.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 [KNOCKING]
00:04 I'll be writing a letter of complaint
00:05 about your late arrival.
00:07 Yeah?
00:08 Who to?
00:09 The Queen.
00:10 That's more like it.
00:11 Any changes we should be aware of?
00:14 Your appearance has slipped to an all-time low.
00:16 This stuff?
00:18 That's my art.
00:19 I used to be in the kitchen, seeing school of realism,
00:21 but now I'm avant-garde and misunderstood.
00:24 Oh.
00:26 You need to drive myself and my art to this gallery
00:31 before the deadline.
00:33 Must be close by now.
00:34 It is 280 miles precisely.
00:37 Sunderland.
00:39 You said it was local.
00:40 It is to me.
00:42 Well, let's get a move on, heave-ho.
00:46 I'm king of everything!
00:55 Dom and Louise, eh?
00:57 I think you need to see Dorothy.
00:59 Your sister.
01:00 Oh, she'd love that, Dorothy would.
01:02 Me turning up with my psychiatric nurse.
01:04 Oh, Audrey.
01:08 You know what's funny?
01:10 You've got me thinking in pictures now.
01:14 That's your aura?
01:15 Somehow, you know, that's the way I feel inside.
01:19 Audrey!
01:21 Hello.
01:23 I've been seeing you, Audrey.
01:24 I believed I was going to achieve recognition.
01:30 You had such an exceptional gift for art, Audrey.
01:37 I'd like to buy more of your work.
01:39 Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime?
01:43 I've outdone him!
01:44 The world is crying out for more magic.
01:52 Art makes life worth living.
01:55 I'm glad I came with you.
02:00 You must be bonkers.
02:02 you