Eight minutes with William Blake's death mask and Kurt Cobain's ghost doing dishes.
The film is a domestic portrait of Patti and her son, Jackson. William Blake was invited in the form of a plaster cast of his death mask. Kurt Cobain, (conflicted, fierce, gentle, and another mother's son) was invited as an admirer of Leadbelly. Cats were invited as household saints. The film invokes New York and rural America. It is about picking up guitars and doing dirty dishes.
Direction
Cohen's collage poetics—home movies as cosmology.
Production
Death masks and dirty dishes share the same frame.
Director
Jem Cohen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jem Cohen shot this during his years documenting Fugazi and living in the same NYC punk circles as Sonic Youth.
Leadbelly was Cobain's hero for his final live performance; Cohen makes this lineage literal by placing him beside Blake.
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