20,000 Days on Earth
Description
Investigating musician/writer/poet Nick Cave’s history, psyche and creative path, 20,000 Days on Earth is a must-see for fans or anyone interested in the artist’s journey. This highly stylized biopic presents a choreographed “day-in-the-life,” and depicts Cave as an introspective and dark figure looking for inspiration amidst a brooding Brighton landscape. We hear his running interior monologue as Cave visits his archive, a therapist and Bad Seed (and Dirty Three) member Warren Ellis. Cave’s conversations circle around creativity, addiction and fame. One of the more wonderful concepts the film introduces features people from Cave’s past—actor Ray Winstone, singer Kylie Minogue and former band mate Blixa Bargeld—as they ride in Cave’s car while having imaginary conversations of reverie and remembrance. The movie’s primary mission is to draw an edge around the origins of Cave’s creative life and to locate his passions and drives. And, of course, the film features the chthonic music of Cave himself with the Bad Seeds. As ever, Cave’s live performances are studies in controlled ferocity, seeming to burrow up from beneath the underneath. –Sean Uyehara
Iain Forsth and Jane Pollard met and began working collaboratively at Goldsmiths.They initially became known for their recreations of highly charged cultural moments which pioneered the use of reenactment within contemporary visual art over a series of major live art commissions at London’s ICA in the late ‘90s. In 2003 they produced File under Sacred Music, a remake of an infamous bootleg of the Cramps playing at Napa State Mental Hospital in 1978. They have established an ongoing working relationship with Nick Cave, with their various projects together including producing the 3D audiobook of his recent novel and directing a series of 14 short films, Do you love me like I love you. 20,000 Days on Earth is their first feature-length film.
Trailer
//player.vimeo.com/video/88191313?autoplay=1Film Details
Year 2014
Runtime 95
Country UK
Director Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Producer Dan Bowen, James Wilson
Editor Jonathan Amos
Cinematographer Erik Wilson
Music Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Print Source Drafthouse Films/ jenny.jacobi@drafthouse.com/ www.drafthousefilms.com