I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE
Directors: Greg Eggebeen and Benjamin Shapiro,2012-2023 65 mins
Greg and Benjamin will be in attendance for the Q’s and the A’s
March 29th 9:15p.m.
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“Beautifully captured… this it the closest any document has yet come to capturing how it all happened, which is to say how the media event that was Nirvana unfolded before the public:” -Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate
“An almost authorless yet sincere tribute to the late ‘90s band.” -Jeremy Polacek, Hyperallergic
The biographical story of Nirvana told through the media detritus left in Kurt Cobain’s wake, I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE was born out of the desire to do a music documentary without any consideration for major label record companies and royalty fees. IHMAIWTD is more than a clip show: it is an alternate, cost-effective model of documentary, collating ephemera to tell a linear story through the outside gaze of home video, lost practice footage, local news broadcasts, stoned TV interviews, insensitive true-crime shows, crushing live performances and more. These collected lenses reflect the lovers and leechers circling the bizarre and spectacular voyage of the unlikeliest band in the world.
