The glitter mines are deep, dark, and absolutely nobody gets out unscathed.
The two-part documentary Pop & Passion tells of power and magic, but also of the pressure and excess that prevails in the pop business.
Direction
Unflinching access that refuses to flatter its subjects.
Editing
Concert euphoria crashes into hotel room hollow.
Production
Two parts because one would break you.
Director
Schyda Vasseghi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film notably centers German pop infrastructure often erased in American-dominated music documentary canon.
Directors Vasseghi and Ernst spent four years embedded; several subjects attempted legal intervention post-filming.
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