Andrew Dominik's unique new 3D B&W feature film ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING will screen globally on September 8th. The feature film launches new studio album by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS SKELETON TREE released worldwide September 9th
Director Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination Of
Jesse James), has issued the very first public statement about working with
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on new 3D black-and-white feature film
One More Time With Feeling:
When Nick approached me about making a film around the recording and performing of the new Bad Seeds album, I'd been seeing quite a lot of him as we rallied around him and his family at the time of his son's death. My immediate response was "Why do you want to do this?" Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn't know who to say them to. The idea of a traditional interview, he said, was simply unfeasible but that he felt a need to let the people who cared about his music understand the basic state of things. It seemed to me that he was trapped somewhere and just needed to do something - anything - to at least give the impression of forward movement.
I took the record away and listened to it trying to work out a way into the whole thing. In the end I agreed to do it if I could shoot it in black-and-white and 3D. Nick's response was, "I fing hate 3D" or something like that. I showed him old black and white photos viewed through a stereopticon from the 50s. I told him I wanted to make a film where these sorts of photos came slowly to life. I felt that the stark black-and-white and
THE HAUNTED drama of these 3D images perfectly addressed the disembodied sound of the record and the weird sense of paralysis that Nick seemed to exist in at the time.
To achieve this effect we built a special camera, a massive, lumbering piece of equipment that's almost comic lack of mobility added to the eerie drift of the film itself. No one has ever seen a 3D black-and-white non-animated feature film in modern times - for as far as I know, no such thing exists. It is both modern and from a distant age - much like the
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' new record, Skeleton Tree, actually.
Nick came to Los Angeles and watched the film. His response was obviously conflicted. How could it not be? In the end he said, "leave it as it is" - which we did. He said that it was obviously "made with love" - which it was and finally, "to make sure they see it in 3D".
Watch the film trailer here: http://smarturl.it/NCATBSwebsite
Album pre-orders and cinema tickets:
nickcave.com
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