If you’re like me, you only know Canadian musician Feist from her third album, The Reminder. When the song “1234” was featured in an iPod commercial, it got stuck in just about everybody’s head before the album sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide and went gold in the U.S. Now Feist has a movie coming out, and it’s looking to shape up to be more than your average music documentary. It’s called Look At What The Light Did Now. I’ll let the official synopsis speak for itself:
Look at What the Light Did Now documents the journey of Feist’s Grammy nominated album The Reminder. This poetic film pulls back the curtain to reveal intimate partnerships with the people Feist calls her ‘amplifiers’: The photographer who helped her hide within the frame, shadow puppeteers in hockey arenas, an artist who built a thread-radiating mural, the video director who conducted fireworks, the pianist who guided the recording of the album, and other musical and visual collaborators. The film follows Feist and her supporting cast through an impressionistic array of flickering scenery, echoing stadiums, puppet workshops, the red carpet, a crumbling French mansion, definitive concert performances and uncommonly candid interviews. Itself a part of the creative mosaic it portrays, Look At What The Light Did Now illuminates the synergy of collaboration, art as magnifying glass, and the power of trust.
It looks like you won’t have to be a Feist fan to enjoy this film. People interested in the behind-the-scenes production of an album and its image or aspiring musicians stand to gain some insight into the hectic world of a professional artist. Not convinced? Check out the trailer below:
Lucky theatergoers can see the film at any of the screenings below. The rest of us will have to wait.
Fri, Oct 15th, 8:00 pm PDT, Los Angeles, CA — The Masonic Lodge
Fri, Oct 22nd 6:30 pm CDT, Mexico City, DF — La Cineteca Nacional (*a doubleheader with This Movie Is Broken)
Sun, Oct 24th 6:30 pm EDT, Mexico City, DF — La Cineteca Nacional
Tue, Oct 26th 7:00 pm CDT, Chicago, IL — Lincoln Hall
Fri, Oct 29th, 7:00 pm PDT, Seattle, WA –Henry Art Gallery
What do you think people unfamiliar with Feist will get out of this movie?