The feature length film that I most enjoyed at the festival was 20, 000 Days on Earth (Dir. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, 2014.); a film representing 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave. What mostly interested me about this film was it's completely unique style. Although the film is factual in parts, it was approached in a way which appears like a drama film but also experimental. Before watching the film, I had not had much of a chance to research it fully, and so was thought it might be a documentary sort of following his day to day life as a musician, like many other music based films. However, after watching the film and a satellite Q and A with the filmmakers afterwards, I found out that the film was scripted and took a quite unusual approach in getting Nick Cave to play a version of himself as an actor. I found this really interesting as although documentary filmmaking is usually considered to be completely or mostly truthful, parts to this film weren't all completely accurate to his life and instead the filmmakers wanted to get across to the viewer a sense of his overall life and his image. I really enjoyed the film as I haven't seen a documentary like it before in its style and I think it worked really well when listening to what the filmmakers wanted to achieve and thinking about how this came across in the full film after seeing it.
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