TV Junkie

Aroview: An excruciating, warts-and-all video confession exposing Rick Kirkam’s decade-long cocaine addiction from behind the face of a prime-time television reporter.

Crunching down an astonishing 3000 hours of diary footage into a TARNATION-esque DIY documentary, dir. Radecki reveals not only Kirkam’s candor and bleeding heart mentality, but the destructive effects of a twin addiction: crack cocaine, first and foremost, but also Kirkam’s pathological desire to film every waking moment of his life, whether in high spirits or utter despair. Powerfully, it’s a film that speaks for itself as an anti-drug testimony, though arguably crosses the boundaries of decency upon turning the camera on Kirkam’s wife and child when in the midst of his most violent episodes.

NZ International Film Festival 2007

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