Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard made their feature film debut with 20,000 Days on Earth. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis composed the original score, and James Wilson and Dan Bowen served as producers.
Forsyth and Pollard actually began filming Cave as he was writing 2013’s Push the Sky Away without knowing what they would ultimately do with the footage. Cave also gave them access to his personal notebooks. “We were able to trace the transformation of his ideas,” said Forsyth. “We found disparate phrases which instantly sparked ideas that excited us. This included a calculation to work out how many days he had been alive on the day they started recording the album, next to the unusually coined phrase ‘20,000 days on earth.'”
Pollard added, “We began to work with the idea of what makes us who we are and what we do with our time on earth.”
“I’ve always liked their unorthodox approach to things,” explained Cave about the filmmakers.
“I am among many who consider Nick Cave the unofficial poet laureate of the modern age,” said Drafthouse Films founder Tim League. “While his music fans are already eagerly anticipating this release, I am personally excited to share this riveting portrait of a modern creative genius with a much wider audience.”
Source: Drafthouse Films
-Posted by Rebecca Murray
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