Moonage Daydream: David Bowie reappears in celebration of inspiration and beauty – 9/15/2022

says Morgan, who signed the the documents Cobain: A Heck Montage and Rolling Stones: Hurricane Crossfire. “What made me completely unprepared was the realization that the film was going to become a kind of roadmap for how to experience life as richly and fully as it was for David.”

“Moonage Daydream” is a frantic, powerful collage of life captured in moments, with narration from Bowie himself. Along the way, we see how he emerged in London in the 1960s as a fully developed artist, evolving into a new creature over the years, writing and redefining concepts of pop culture.

Every shift, every revolution, didn’t start from the cogs of the corporate system that drives the music marketing world: Bowie’s mind actually works on the frequency of Watch Tomorrow. Abstract and intoxicating, Moonage Daydream captures how he turned that vision into art.

To translate this feeling into cinema, Brett Morgan needed to build a visual vocabulary capable of understanding the sensory attack in his hands. “I entered the editing room not only with David’s art as a tool, but also with the art that inspired him,” he explains. “Then I sought the freedom to use each part, like the films, and the pieces inherent in their composition, like the bricks that the film is made of.”

Another artistic decision that helped Morgen form “Moonage Daydream” was to showcase everything Bowie had done as a performance. He continues, “It was his quotes, his moments as an artist.” “He performs when he’s giving interviews. It’s a performance on stage, it’s a performance in ‘The Man Who Fell to the Ground’, it’s a performance in documentaries.”

Looking at Bowie’s work as acting, Brett Morgen felt free to use footage from Nicolas Rouge’s The Man Who Fell to the Ground not as Bowie’s performance, but as a record of the artist captured at that very moment. He notes that “every part of ‘Moonage Daydream’ was made this way.” “That was the agreement I made with the audience to weave the vastness of the material together.”