
Moonage Daydream
Director: Brett Morgen Run Time: 134 min. Release Year: 2022
Starring: David Bowie, Dick Cavett, Lou Reed, Russell Harty, Tina Turner
Screening as part of a/perture’s Summer Music Festival, sponsored by Blanco Tackabery.
Many music documentaries can feel similar to skimming an musician’s Wikipedia page, very few can make you feel like you’re seeing the world through their perspective. After crafting excellent documentaries on subjects as varied as Kurt Cobain, O.J. Simpson, and Jane Goodall, director Brett Morgen gains access to David Bowie’s archives, and creates a kaleidoscopic journey through a singular artists’ creative life.
“It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, Bowie’s own experimental video art and paintings, movie and stage work and interviews with various normcore TV personalities with whom Bowie is unfailingly polite, open and charming.” ~ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian