David Bowie Is Dead

Name: David Bowie Is Dead
Director: Mark Jenkin
Released: 2018
Duration: 17 min

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Mark Jenkin / 2018 / 17 mins / UK / English / Documentary, Experimental / Australian Premiere

Viewer Advice: Contains stroboscopic imagery

An Ektachrome city symphony that captures a London lost to the quicksand of time.

The day after David Bowie’s death in 2016, Mark Jenkin took to the streets of London to film a city in flux, watching on as decades of so-called progress appeared to collapse in on one another. In the resulting 2018 short, Jenkin narrates the footage with excerpts from his diary, turning a black-and-white dream into an ecstatic Beat poem.

Metro sessions

Sat 15 Aug 6:30pm Kino 2

Past Session

An Fylmow Berr | The Shorts of Mark Jenkin (82 m)

A Dog Called Discord (23 m)

Dear Marianne (6 m)

The Essential Cornishman (6 m)

Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (5 m)

David Bowie Is Dead (17 m)

The Road to Zennor (2 m)

29 Hour Long Birthday (6 m)

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (17 m)

An Fylmow Berr | The Shorts of Mark Jenkin (82 m)

A Dog Called Discord (23 m)

Dear Marianne (6 m)

The Essential Cornishman (6 m)

Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (5 m)

David Bowie Is Dead (17 m)

The Road to Zennor (2 m)

29 Hour Long Birthday (6 m)

I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (17 m)

Past Session

Kino 2

Past Session

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