“Michelangelo said the rocks speak to him. Well, this plastic stuff speaks to me,” says Jerry Ross Barrish in this inspiring documentary about the unorthodox San Francisco–based artist and former pioneering independent filmmaker. The dyslexic son of a mob-connected Chicago boxer, Barrish worked for forty years as a bail bondsman, becoming the bailout guy for many radical 1960s protestors, while also making films and—in later years—art. Working with found plastic—trash, essentially—since 1989, Barrish has created sculptures with the empathic whimsy of Alexander Calder or Pablo Picasso. Beth Custer provides the soundtrack for this “charming look at a singular life and talent” (Dennis Harvey).