With exclusive and intimate access to one of Australia’s National Living Treasures, Kasimir Burgess’ feature documentary, THE LEUNIG FRAGMENTS entertains, engages and enlivens audiences with a revealing portrait of an enigmatic artist who through his newspaper cartoons just happens to be a household name.

Philip Adams in on camera interview, describes Leunig’s cartoons as “weaponized whimsy”, a perceptive appellation of the work of a man whose child hood was seemingly full of parental care and love and yet fragmented, a fragmentation that also befell his adult relationships and the estrangement of the family he begot.

Filmed over five eventful years, we observe Michael grappling with life, art and mortality. The reflections of a man nearing the end of his life encompass the curious boy Leunig starting out with past present and future hopes and dreams colliding and careering.

Citing his Apron is his favourite painting, THE LEUNIG FRAGMENTS is a fascinating study into the day to day creative process of one of Australia’s most influential contemporary artists, the stuff that inspire him and the demons that haunt him.

Like the best of documentary film making, THE LEUNIG FRAGMENTS unearth and show stuff that you wont find in Wikipedia, fragments that make up a mosaic of personal and professional memoir, painful and celebratory, insightful and revelatory.