Out there on Netflix from at the moment (December 31), a brand new Avicii documentary lets the artist communicate for himself. Titled I’m Tim, the documentary follows the producer, composer and famous person DJ born Tim Bergling from his childhood and adolescence in Stockholm to the worldwide fame he achieved as Avicii, with the movie narrated by Bergling himself.
The movie’s director Henrik Burman mentioned “When I determined that he’d be the one who’d narrate this story, I thought that maybe it was how I could be close to him. Maybe that’s how I can meet him.”
Burman started work on the venture in 2019 — shortly after the pioneering artist’s demise at age 28 earlier that yr — the place he initially deliberate to make an hour-long program for Swedish Nationwide Tv concerning the closing, posthumous Avicii album, 2019’s Tim. A musician and music journalist in Sweden, Burman had accomplished the 2020 Yung Lean documentary Yung Lean: In My Head and was able to tackle one other music-related venture.
Working with the blessing of Bergling’s dad and mom, Burman had full entry to the sprawling Avicii archives. He discovered hours of interviews with the producer performed throughout totally different durations of his profession, together with some within the later a part of his life, when he was capable of mirror on quitting touring in 2016, his issues with alcohol abuse, his strategy to creating music and extra.
The Avicii documentary additionally presents a great deal of studio footage, highlighting Bergling’s strategy to creating music and his particular reward with melody. You possibly can watch the official trailer beneath.
“There were moments in these interviews where he’d say, ‘This really describes me as a person, so if there’s ever a documentary made about me, you should use this to tell the story,” Burman says of the moments he found amid the archival footage. “He’d say things like, ‘If there’s a documentary, we need to talk about alcohol; we need to talk about the bad things in my life.’ I’ve been looking for clues like this — I’ve listened to Tim for hours and hours trying to understand him and put together the puzzle of who he was as a person and who Avicii was as this amazing artist.”
Burman and his small group from Stockholm travelled between the U.S. and Europe to interview most of the key figures in Bergling’s life and profession. I’m Tim options Neil Jacobson, who was the A&R for Avicii whereas president at Geffen Data; Aloe Blacc and Dan Tyminski, who labored on Avicii’s 2013 nation crossover album True; Per Sundin, who signed Avicii’s breakout tracks “Seek Bromance” and “Levels” to Common Music Sweden; Ash Pournouri, the supervisor who architected Avicii’s rise; fellow EDM pillar David Guetta; Nile Rodgers; Coldplay’s Chris Martin, who labored with Avicii on music together with the 2014 hit “Sky Full of Stars”; longtime buddy and early collaborator Filip “Philgood” Åkesson; shut buddy Jesse Waits; and Bergling’s dad and mom, Anki Lidén and Klas Bergling.
The ultimate 90-minute Avicii documentary debuted on the Tribeca Movie Competition in June and is nominated for Guldbagge Award, the most important Swedish movie award, for modifying.
I’m Tim is completely stacked with Avicii music, with the documentary being launched alongside “My Last Show,” a 30-minute efficiency movie from Avicii’s closing dwell present at Ushuaïa Ibiza on August 28, 2016 that’s meant to perform as a companion piece. “When you’ve seen this film, you want to also feel who Avicii was on stage,” Burman says. “It’s his last show, but it’s such a happy feel around it.”
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