Barking in the Dark / Nick Cave's Veiled World
Barking in the Dark
Who are The Residents? For more than fifty years, they have remained one of music's greatest enigmas – an anonymous collective whose surreal performances, iconic masks, and uncompromising experimentation have left an indelible mark on the history of the American avant-garde. Marie Losier enters their elusive universe, creating a cinematic collage where archival footage, performances, memories, and imagination dissolve into one another.
Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of The Residents, Losier allows it to remain a mystery. At the heart of the film are creative independence, absurdity, humor, and the radical artistic freedom of a collective that has spent decades resisting definition. Barking in the Dark is an intimate portrait of artists for whom anonymity is not a limitation, but a space for boundless imagination.
Nick Cave's Veiled World
Nick Cave has always been an artist who refuses to stand still. Nick Cave's Veiled World looks beyond his public persona to explore the personal and creative transformation that has reshaped his work over the past decade.
Blending archival footage with Cave's own voice and reflections from friends, collaborators, and those who have followed his work – including Warren Ellis, members of The Bad Seeds, Flea, Florence Welch, Wim Wenders, and Rowan Williams – the film creates a layered portrait of an artist whose music continues to evolve alongside his life.
At its heart is the period surrounding the creation of Ghosteen, one of Cave's most personal albums, born out of profound loss. Nick Cave's Veiled World is a film about grief, creativity, and the search for a new language after tragedy. Rather than attempting to explain the artist, it explores how music can become a space for processing pain, transformation, and the search for meaning.
