Moonage Daydream, a film about David Bowie, opens with “Hallo Spaceboy,” a deep cut from his 1995 album Outside. It’s clear from the use of this song that Brett Morgen isn’t making a traditional documentary about the Thin White Duke.
“I was completely trolling,” admits Morgen.
But the use of a relatively obscure industrial track from later in Bowie’s career illustrates what the director is trying to achieve. He’s looking to tell the story of Bowie’s work as an experience or a feeling, full of “chaos” and “fragmentation,” rather than a chronological, visual biography. This is something that many music documentaries don’t attempt.
Morgen says there are plenty of books and other documentaries about David Bowie that tell this version of the story.
“What can I offer that you can’t get in Wikipedia? It’s an experience. It’s something intangible. What’s great...
“I was completely trolling,” admits Morgen.
But the use of a relatively obscure industrial track from later in Bowie’s career illustrates what the director is trying to achieve. He’s looking to tell the story of Bowie’s work as an experience or a feeling, full of “chaos” and “fragmentation,” rather than a chronological, visual biography. This is something that many music documentaries don’t attempt.
Morgen says there are plenty of books and other documentaries about David Bowie that tell this version of the story.
“What can I offer that you can’t get in Wikipedia? It’s an experience. It’s something intangible. What’s great...
- 9/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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