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Wizard - The Magical Realist
Film (Full Length) – 2010
Art is what you can get away with.– The Wizard of New Zealand, AKA Ian Brackenbury Channell
The Wizard is astonishing. The Wizard is the one paranormal person on the face of the Earth that skeptics are actually having to believe in. He actually is able to do it.– Dennis Dutton, founder of the New Zealand Skeptics Society, on The Wizard's successful rain dances
I like art and music and I don't like the truth because the truth is bloody boring! So, let's live in a world of fantasy — and we know it's bullshit but you must always choose the best bullshit.– The Wizard of New Zealand preaches from atop his ladder
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