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Bob Ray is a wold famous filmmaker, animator, documentarian, rabble-rouse, trouble-maker, outlaw and humorist whose work has appeared in a baker's dozens of film festivals, publications across the wasteland and at hundreds of cinemas and museums spanning the great blue marble we call earth.  Ray's work ethic is unequalled.  He is a prolific filmmaker and creator of art, who cannot be stopped. Bob Ray has crafted three critically acclaimed low-to-no budget features--Total Badass, Hell on Wheels and the narrative, Rock Opera-- and has made countless short films, cartoons and music videos.  Countless, because we refuse to count them, but there are lots! 

Here is a small sampling of some seriously serious critical quotes about Bob Ray and his films:

TOTAL BADASS:

"Total Badass is both a protrait of life on the artistic and social fringe and a thriller... a cross of Frederick Wiseman and Hunter S. Thompson." -The New York Times

"The title couldn't be more apt." -Time Out New York

"Total Badass is a wild, unique ride, deep into the Austin counterculture... it's entertaining and shocklingly funny, and undeniably touching... a thunderbolt of a documentary." -Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

"A ballsy feature-length documentary... a totally unapologetic profile of ubiquitous Austin hero." -Vice Magazine

"A psychological treat" -Pheonix New Times

"Genuinely funny and touching" -Monday Magazine

"Total Badass is everything you've heard it is and more.  It's easily the best documentary that I've seen this year.  Total Badass is massively entertaining to watch, it thoroughly delivers on the promise of its title, and the ending comes together so well, in fact, that I initially believed that it might have been staged." -The National Examiner

HELL ON WHEELS:

"Hell on Wheels is an epic doc.  It's fast, fun and inspiring." -Chris Gore (founder, Film Threat Magazine)

"...the kind of twists, drama, cat fights and compound fractures that only happen in real life... the story is extremely compelling, sometimes laugh-out-loud outrageous and above all inspiring." -Ain't It Cool News

"Hell on Wheels is full of adrenaline-fueled highs, heartbreaking lows, and lots of chicks in short skirts kicking the shit out of each other." -Onion's A.V. Club

"Bone-crunching collisions, behind-the-scenes drama and roller skates are all part of the outrageous documentary...a smashingly entertaining feature!" -Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

ROCK OPERA:

"Hilarious" **** (4 of 4 stars) -Toronto Eye

"Rock Opera is damn funny." -The Seattle Stranger

"Genuinely warped...scathingly hilarious...a spot-on quasi-parody of the day-to-day existence of struggling Austin musicians and their wayward ways." -The Austin Chronicle

"Truly suspenseful... terribly funny... Rock Opera puts Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to shame." -San Francisco Weekly