David Bowie Doc Director Brett Morgen Explains Why He Used Rare Tour Footage Featuring 1980s Singapore

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Award-winning documentarian Brett Morgen had a tough time tracking down the 1984 documentary Richochet to use in his film Moonage Daydream.

a hybrid non-fiction film where the singer would reprise his Ziggy Stardust persona.

But the timing was right then and it wasn’t until after Bowie’s death that Morgen touched base with the Bowie estate that the project was resurrected. Out of the all assets he had unfiltered access to, Morgen — who was introduced to Bowie via the 1980 albumwhile in seventh grade — says the most surprising thing he found was his words. “That actually is a shock,” Morgen tellsover Zoom from London. “Listening to him talk about art, philosophy, and spirituality was a revelation for someone who didn’t know David Bowie. I had no idea how courageous he was, not just about his art but his life, about how he approached life.

Morgen devoted four years to assembling the “experiential non-fiction film” and another 18 months designing the soundscape, animations, and colour palette., a 78-minute hybrid-documentary-fiction diary film about Bowie’s adventures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok during the Serious Moonlight World Tour in 1983., chatting with a cab driver , learning about Chinese street opera and checking out the just-opened Far East Plaza.

Back to the future: A scene from ‘Ricochet’ where David Bowie is making way to the Far East Plaza in 1983.for the first time — I have never heard of it, never seen it, this was during my research — I lost mind,” Morgen recalls. “Becausecaptures what I think David was doing most of his life, which is exploring, wandering. He liked to be in environments that were foreign and distant to him. He liked to observe — he was a cultural anthropologist.

 

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