EXCLUSIVE: While the film world eagerly awaits the release of Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic BlondeWe can now reveal details about the most recent collaboration between filmmaker and musicians, filmed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. This is what I know to be true.
Dominik, an Oz filmmaker, teamed up previously with Cave and Ellis for a powerful effect on the breathtaking western. Robert Ford, The Coward: The Assassination of Jesse James. They followed that up with 2016 music documentary One more time with feelingIt premiered at Venice Film Festival.
This is what I know to be true is a companion piece to the latter film, exploring the creative relationship and songs from Cave and Ellis’s last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). Below is a first glimpse image of the film.
Shot on location in London & Brighton last year, the movie will document the duo’s first performances of the albums and will feature a special appearance by close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull. Robbie Ryan (Oscar-nominated DoP) is responsible for cinematography.The Favourite).
Interstitial parts between songs will be “illuminate the cosmology and themes of the music”. Viewers will learn about Cave writing. The Red Hand Files—the letters he chooses to answer and the replies themselves — and his method. Cave is currently creating sculptures of the Devil’s life in his workshop. This film also includes a visit to the workshop. The series is described by “a portrait of the lives of all of us as we move from innocence to experience, attune to the world and its attendant loss, and eventually confront our own mortality”.
The release date is set for 2022 when Ellis and Cave will make their first U.S. tour.
Uncommon Creative Studios produced the movie Bad Seed Ltd Film. Amy James and Isaac Hoff were the producers. Charlie Gatsky Sinckair and Brian Message are the executive producers. Beth Clayton is the producer. Matthew C. Hart is the editor and Chris Scott handles lighting design.
In 2014, docs also captured the relationship between Ellis and Cave, long-time collaborators. 20,000 Days on Earth.
Acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Cave is well known for his baritone voice and for fronting rock band Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, of which violinist and multi-instrumentalist Ellis was a key member. Cave is also famous for writing movies such asThe Proposition LawlessThanks for your collaboration with Ellis on the score for films including Oscar-nominated Hell Or High Water, and all the aforementioned Lawless.