Fish Have No Psychiatrists: A Day With Andrei Codrescu is a creative documentary collage centering around the life and times of poet, novelist, public speaker and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu. 60 years after director Julian Semilian and Andrei met on a plane while emigrating from România to the United States, Julian visits Andrei in Brooklyn for a freewheeling day of 20th century nostalgia and current creative insights. A survivor of two 20th century totalitarianisms, Andrei’s eyewitness takes us on a complex, at times contradictory, and ever creative journey. Born in Transylvania to a Jewish family during the aftermath of WWII and Romania’s fascist policies of extermination of the Jewish people, Andrei experienced Romania’s subsequent Stalinist before his emigration in 1966. Arriving in the United States, he gained quick prominence in the urgent literary scene of Beatdom and beyond and delighted three decades of audiences through his weekly essays on National Public Radio. Now, across seas, states, and several decades, Fish Have No Psychiatrists: A Day With Andrei Codrescu offers 21st century audiences passports to Andrei’s defiantly playful worlds. Featuring beautiful animation and original music throughout, the film is itself experimental in its approach to documentary. Audiences encounter histories and methods of Surrealism and Dada, cultural muses and musings on the Self, Hurricane Katrina, theories of reverse evolution and other fish-food for thought. Seekers of all stripes will discover something to enjoy!