In Praise of Nothing
Assembled over eight years using crowd-sourced material shot in 70 countries, Serbian director Boris Mitić’s “whistleblowing documentary parody” is a delightfully strange experiment. Iggy Pop narrates the sardonic thoughts of unseen protagonist “Nothing” in rhyming verse, over a hypnotic montage of sunsets, train journeys, cloudscapes, beaches and more. Mitić may lean heavily toward the absurd, but his wry insights also recall essay-film experts like Chris Marker and Patrick Keiller.
Iggy Pop
- Notes From Ed LachmanAll right, this is hard to explain but definitely one to experience. This is a film of fixed shots that document and contemplate life as nothingness, and yet it all becomes something in a beautiful and poetic sense. It’s shot around the world, and Iggy Pop narrates over the top of it all, with ruminations about politics and personal relations. It’s like a tone poem, and it’s a remarkable idea —how do you film nothingness?
