David Byrne's recent world tour is set to be turned into a concert cinema.
The film is being shot on 70mm film by director Brady Corbet, who is perhaps best known for his work on The Brutalist, winning Golden Globe and BAFTA awards, along with three Oscar nominations. He also directed Vox Lux, starring Natalie Portman, and the Robert Pattinson starred, The Childhood Of A Leader.
It is currently in post production, with a distribution and release date yet to be announced at the time of writing.
“I am so grateful to David Byrne and his entire team for entrusting us to capture his hometown show on 8-perf and 15-perf 70mm", Corbet said of the film. “The band’s performance is an inclusive celebration of community, and of Baltimore in particular—one of America’s most underappreciated historic cities".
The tour itself, titled, 'Who Is The Sky' had launched in September last year, which saw Byrne perform over 150 shows across four continents with 13 musicians.
The press release described this tour as a show that “blends visual art, storytelling, and music into one compelling live performance”.
The top show from this tour, took place at The Hippodrome in Baltimore, and was captured by Corbet for this film, and has clearly left an impression on David Byrne, who was simply blown away by the results, according to a press release.
“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realise what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,” David Byrne said in a press release. “He was right, it really does capture the wide screen visual scope of the show. I’ve never seen anything like it". (All quotes in this piece according to NME).
Prior to this, David Byrne has also worked with award winning filmmakers, Jonathan Demme on Talking Heads' concert movie, Stop Making Sense, along with Spike Lee on the stage production, David Byrne's American Utopia in 2020.
Back in April, David Byrne performed at the Coachella Festival, where he treated the crowd to several Talking Heads classics, including ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Once In A Lifetime’, ‘This Must Be The Place’ and ‘Burning Down The House', as well as some hits from his recent solo album, 'Who Is The Sky', such as his famous collaboration with Brian Eno, 'Strange Overtones' from 2008's 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'.
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