I have seen this film and it's terrific. Highly recommended viewing. Similar to The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry, both films educate the public on an influential (and eccentric) musician that does not get nearly enough respect and props.
My apologies for the bizarre font style but I copied and pasted it from the filmmaker's email.
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Portrait of music's best kept secretOPENS IN NYC AT IFC CENTER DECEMBER 17 LA just announced for Nuart February 27 SF/Berkeley runs start Jan 23
Hot off the rack, a brand new trailer for the feature length documentary The Upsetter, The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry, which as you all know has been traveling around the globe since the world premier at SXSW this March. In less than half a year the film has opened in Austin, Baltimore, Toronto, Brooklyn, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Prague and probably a couple other cities that I'm forgetting. In November the film embarks on a nationwide tour as a part of the Scion Film Series hitting Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago and a host of other US cities. If you haven't seen it, now is your chance to experience a movie that is already being placed among the greatest music documentaries of our generation. And if you think I'm exaggerating watch this short trailer below:
The past 3 days, I've watched a 5-minute, 16-second clip from the sports documentary/art piece "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait" over 20 times. What I saw dazzled me. But what I heard has inspired me. The song playing throughout is "7.25" by Mogwai. I've spent 99 cents to buy this song off of iTunes (a rarity since I still prefer buying cd's but I couldn't wait) and if I've watched the clip over 20 times, I've listened to the song over 100. Despite not having seen the entire film, I've been motivated to make a highly-selective, minimally-invasive, photographic pseudo-documentary of my everyday. For obvious reasons, I can't say whether this project will be in the same vein as "Zidane" or not, but all I know is that I don't own a digital camera. I'm going to have to borrow, buy or steal one.
I waited for a car to come pick me up to drive me home for few minutes after work tonight (12:15 am, or 50 minutes ago). I was just looking at cars and buses coming down Lexington Avenue. All I wanted to do was take out my camera phone and snap away. I didn't think about how original the images were going to be, or the poor quality they were going to be presented in, I just wanted to record those images. That feeling was truth. That temporary absence of restrictive feelings and abundant questioning made me understand just how much self-doubt we all live in. Arguably, some live more socially constrained lives than others but we all exist within these boundaries. Different situations, different masks. I don't care if they're self-imposed or not.
I thought of what my life looks like in the morning now that I live alone and nobody can see me. Or what my walk to the subway must look like. What do I focus on? What breaks that focus every now and then? Maybe my friends want to see what my apartment looks like when I don't know they're coming over. Who cares? This project will answer just a few of these questions and maybe more will come about because of this. I'm not promising unfettered access into my life. I'm not an artist. I'm certainly not a photographer. I just want to see what a few days look like to me.
This could be interesting or it could be a load of self-absorbed garbage.
There are times when I really don't know who I am.
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