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Daniel Johnston’s music and art have culminated in a colorful history in Texas and around the world—as well as a cult following that, for 20 years, has adored his tortured artistic genius. His fans know him as an unparalleled singer-songwriter and artist whose underground fame is the result of a series of homemade, lo-fi cassettes that he recorded and handed out in the early '80s. And these same fans in their fervor have seen multiple times, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, a film about the deeply personal songs, films, and drawings he’s created in the midst of his struggle with manic depression. 

History
Johnston was born in 1961; when he broke free from a Christian fundamentalist upbringing that feared losing him to the “dark side”, his first move was to enroll in an art college. While Johnston’s songs and drawings have always been a reflection of his ongoing struggle with manic depression, this was never more evident than in the works he created during this time. Unemployed and attending class periodically, he retreated into his family's cellar to write and record Songs of Pain and More Songs of Pain.