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Swans: Where Does a Body End?

  • September 2019
  • 2hrs

    41mins

  • Documentary
  • Music
  • Directed by

    Marco Porsia,

    Rodney Ascher,

    Starring

    Michael Gira,

    Jarboe,

    Thurston Moore,

    Lee Ranaldo

    ...

    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?"