The musical deity Nick Cave and his legendary, expressive violinist compatriot Warren Ellis, have shared a moving new rendition of “Ghosteen Speaks”, teasing audiences for the upcoming film; “This Much I Know To Be True” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in March 2022.
Directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Blonde), the forthcoming film follows on from the 2016 documentary “One More Time With Feeling” which came in the wake of tremendous tragedy at the loss of Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur. The film included 35 minutes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performing works from the album Skeleton Tree at Air Studios.
Take in the haunting new performance of “Ghosteen speaks” down below:
“This Much I Know To Be True” will feature songs from the albums Ghosteen and Carnage. Performed by a prestigious ensemble of vocalists and strings that will breathe a renewed spirit into the stories. The documentaries’ purpose was described here, stating; “Interstitial pieces between the songs illuminate the cosmology and themes of the music. We hear about the process of Nick writing The Red Hand Files – the letters he chooses to answer and the replies themselves – giving us an insight into his current concerns in life and music, and into the method by which he is able to bring his own thoughts and feelings into order. We also visit the workshop where he is creating a series of sculptures depicting the life of the Devil – a portrait of the lives of all of us as we move from innocence to experience, attune to the world and its attendant loss, and eventually confront our own mortality.”
“THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE reaches into the deep friendship and personal relationship between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, something glimpsed in the 2014 Cave pseudo-documentary, 20,000 Days on Earth. The film will prove to be another significant moment in the journeys of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, capturing the mood and spirit of the pair as they move through a new, optimistic phase.”
This latest film will be released in cinemas on the 11th of May 2022. Tickets are available here. The trailer which dropped on the 23rd of March 2022 can be found below:
Nick Cave is currently blazing through a North American headline tour in support of the album Carnage, marking the first-ever US Tour shared by Cave and Ellis as a duo.
