Alex Gibney Directing Paul Simon Documentary ‘In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon’
deadline.comFollowing a three year shoot, award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has just completed production on In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon, the documentary about Paul Simon’s legendary Grammy Award-winning career.
The film also follows Simon’s journey creating his new album Seven Psalms, which poses questions about faith and mortality, during the pandemic and while dealing with his hearing loss.
The film is expected to be part of the fall film festival circuit. In the film, Gibney and Simon journey through a dreamlike world of storytelling, an absorbing portrait of an artist, that transcends both time and space moving freely between present and past, showcasing both his music making in the here-and-now and a unique peek into his career, from Tom & Jerry to Simon & Garfunkel to the triumphs of Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints.
Rarely seen or heard footage of Paul on his own in England in 1964, outtakes from Songs of America, a 16mm documentary from 1969 and early rehearsal videos from Paul’s first days jamming with Graceland musicians in Johannesburg are featured in the film.
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