How does an artist figure out what's truly essential? Artist Bryan Zanisnik draws from the absurd and dark sides of his personal history to make his surreal performance art and sculpture. Struggling to find his own voice as an adult artist, Zanisnik finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places: homemade, VHS-shot gangster mini-epics, starring the artist's Italian-American grandmother, that Zanisnik created as a teen.