'He was trapped and needed to do something': Nick Cave felt 'paralysed' after his son Arthur's death and needed to make upcoming film to 'move forward', director reveals
Dominik, who is close to The Bad Seeds frontman and was among a circle who consoled him after Arthur's death, said Cave approached him about making the film.
'I’d been seeing quite a lot of him as we rallied around him and his family at the time of his son’s death,' the 48-year-old said in a statement.
'My immediate response was "Why do you want to do this?"
'Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn’t know who to say them to.'
Though a traditional interview was dismissed as 'unfeasible', Cave wanted to share something of the experience with his fans.
'He felt a need to let the people who cared about his music understand the basic state of things,' Dominik said.
'It seemed to me that he was trapped somewhere and just needed to do something — anything — to at least give the impression of forward movement.'
The Chopper director also explained the decision to shoot One More Time With Feeling in black and white 3D, despite Cave previously saying 'I f***ing hate 3D'.
'I felt that the stark black-and-white and the haunted drama of these 3D images perfectly addressed the disembodied sound of the record and the weird sense of paralysis that Nick seemed to exist in at the time,' he said.
Dominik directed 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James, which Cave produced the music for.
In a haunting trailer for the documentary released last week, Cave hinted about how the 'catastrophic' loss has left him unable to recognise himself.
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