Swans: Where Does a Body End?

"Michael is not a fearless person, but he is a fearless artist."

From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982--singer, songwriter Michael Gira. 'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"

• Release date
• September 19, 2019
• Runtime
• 161 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Marco Porsia

Cast

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Michael Gira Self Jarboe Self Thurston Moore Self Lee Ranaldo Self Amanda Palmer Self

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Devendra Banhart Self

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Blixa Bargeld Self J.G. Thirlwell Self