Harrod Blank and Leon Russell on A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON, 2015

Director Les Blank’s son Harrod Blank was instrumental in helping A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON see the light of day, after it had gone largely unseen for decades. In this conversation, Blank sits down with the film’s subject, musician Leon Russell, in Nashville to talk about POEM’s long journey, from its production in the early 1970s to its release in 2015.