SWANS - Where Does A Body End? Deluxe Edition 2019
Where Does a Body End? is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips back through their most popular songs. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since it's formation in 1982-singer, songwriter Michael Gira. With unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs, the film brings us along the path they needed to carve for themselves. The film is many things, a musical history, a time-capsule, a tour diary, a concert film, but mostly it's the story of a life in the arts, frequently difficult, spanning decades without a safety net, creating the work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"
- Released: 2019-09-19
- Runtime: 316 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Stars: Michael Gira, Jarboe, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Amanda Palmer
- Director: Marco Porsia, Rodney Ascher, Michael Wabro, Simon Mattock, Nick Rosendorf
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- Source: CWR-CRB
