Nico's ghost + Romantic poets + Thames = the most haunted 72 minutes of your life.
Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the films of Philippe Garrel circa 1975 and Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls and swirling electronic music from Ash Ra Tempel and new electric guitar sound track by James Creed and tracks to the songs by Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin and ex of The Faction with new images of the River Thames put together in an elegy on iconicity, vocality, finitude and solitude.
Sound
Nico's voice dissolving into Ash Ra Tempel drone.
Editing
Garrel and Warhol footage recontextualized as memorial.
Director
Nina Danino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nina Danino's work exists in the shadowy zone where artists' cinema meets academic hauntology; this film premiered at the London Film Festival's Experimenta strand.
Graham Dowdall (Gagarin) performed with Nico in her final years; his score here is literally elegy by someone who knew the elegized.
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