Swans: Where Does a Body End?

Release Date: 2019-09-19

Overview: From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982--singer, songwriter Michael Gira. 'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"

Rating: 7.9 / 10

Cast

Michael Gira

as Self

Jarboe

as Self

Thurston Moore

as Self

Lee Ranaldo

as Self

Amanda Palmer

as Self

Crew

Michael Wabro - Sound Mixer
Rodney Ascher - Story Editor
Christian Storms - Director of Photography
Marco Bresba - Story Editor
Pedro Orrego - Story Editor

Reviews

SWITCH.:

A revealing profile of frontman Michael Gira and an honest and exhaustive look at the band, Marco Porsia's 'Swans: Where Does a Body End?' does the seemingly impossible by defining a musical collectiv...