Desc: Middleman: The Imperfect Is Our Paradise: Directed by Madeline Becker. With Raoul Middleman. As Baltimore's industrial harbor is transformed into luxury apartments and tourist attractions, 84 year-old artist Raoul Middleman continues to paint the city that shaped him and the people who surround him. Driven by a love of burlesque and Baltimore's working harbor, his massive paintings celebrate people who exist on the fringes of society. While his work is represented in the collections of renowned museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, most of his 10,000 paintings have never left the racks of his East Baltimore warehouse. Sitting in the dark, the stories of the people and places once captured fade into memory.