Presented by Belfast Film Festival and Now Press Play
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
Beanbag Cinema - Exchange Place (off Donegall St)
Friday 3 October, 7.00pm
£8.00 / £6.00
Buy TicketsThis incredible film is intimate portrait of a true musical artist, charting the vertiginous arc of Judee Sill’s life – from a deeply troubled adolescence of abuse, addiction and prison through her meteoric rise in the music world.
She went from living in a car with four others sleeping in shifts to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone in four years.
Yet, for Judee, success and happiness were fleeting. While her singular sound was critically adored, her albums did not sell. Although she continued to make music, Judee was injured in an auto accident which put her in constant pain and forced her to rely again on narcotics, tragically dying of an overdose in 1979.
Through recorded interviews, concert intros and entries in her personal journal the film provides deep access to the source of her unique musical creativity and to the darker recesses of her struggles with addiction.
Additional interviews with friends and contemporaries, including Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and David Geffen give a first-hand experience of Judee’s personality, talents and struggles.
Ultimately, Lost Angel it is a story of hope, redemption and the power of art.
“The directors…put forth an empathetic portrait of an artist who was neither fit for consumption during her life, nor for obscurity thereafter. Intimate scans of Sill’s private journals detail an astonishing bittersweetness…We delight in coming to know her, even as we mourn what was never to be.” THE GUARDIAN
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