Moonage Daydream
(Picture: handout)American filmmaker Brett Morgen, 53, is no stranger to making music documentaries. But even after working on films about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and the Rolling Stones, nothing prepared him for his latest, Moonage Daydream – a film about iconic British artist David Bowie. After doing two years of academic research on the musician, he was granted unprecedented access by Bowie’s estate to search through the musician’s extensive personal archives. It took another two years of sifting through before editing began.
The resulting film is an immersive journey into the creative mind of Bowie, rather than a factual blow-by-blow account of his life. It’s told entirely using the voice of late musician, using archival footage from interviews and films. There are previously unseen performances and concert clips, as well as vignettes of some of Bowie’s rarely showcased work in the wider artistic fields of art, dance, television and film.
