Nick Cave is requesting footage from followers for an upcoming collaborative movie to accompany his latest Seven Psalms challenge.
Launched final week, the gathering contains seven spoken phrase cuts set to music that was created in collaboration with Warren Ellis in addition to a concluding 12-minute piece, “Psalm Instrumental”.
The file, which was produced by Cave alongside Luis Almau, got here collectively in the course of the periods for Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ 2021 studio album Carnage.
“Whereas in lockdown I wrote numerous psalms, or small, sacred songs—one a day for per week,” Nick Cave defined in an announcement.
“The seven psalms are offered as one lengthy meditation—on religion, rage, love, grief, mercy, intercourse and reward. A veiled, contemplative providing borne of an unsure time. I hope you prefer it.”
Now, Cave is seeking to accumulate a variety of fan-shot footage for a collaborative Seven Psalms movie that may function “a type of non secular portrait of the world presently”. A press launch described the challenge as “an formidable concept with a small price range”.
The musician has requested for brief cellphone clips (two minutes in size or much less) that “imply one thing” to the fan, reminiscent of “selfie portraits, miracles of nature and pure catastrophe, the sacred and profane”.
“It may very well be footage of the particular person you like, video you shot at a protest, or one thing extraordinary that you just discover stunning. Themes may very well be mercy, anger, splendour, grief, solitude, craving, revelation [or] glory.”
Those that wish to contribute to the Seven Psalms movie are required to submit their movies to psalms@nickcave.com earlier than July 26. The clips have to be in a panorama, 720p MP4 format.
Again in Might, Nick Cave launched the movie This A lot I Know To Be True which centres across the inventive relationship between Cave and his Unhealthy Seeds bandmate and longtime collaborator Warren Ellis.
Nick Cave And The Unhealthy Seeds performed their first present in 4 years final month as a part of the band’s 2022 summer season tour.
