ZHU is stepping behind the digicam with 24 Hours of Grace, a brand new documentary function premiering at SXSW.
The “Faded” hitmaker has at all times embraced the shadows, however in his first documentary, he is entering into the sunshine. No stranger to reinvention, ZHU serves because the movie’s director, producer and screenwriter, crafting an intimate portrait of an artist at a crossroads.
24 Hours of Grace follows ZHU as he returns to San Francisco to report GRACE, his fourth studio album, inside a gothic cathedral that doubles as each a sanctuary and a inventive incubator. The documentary goes behind the scenes of the recording course of, culminating in a high-stakes efficiency the place the freshly minted tracks are debuted for an viewers the identical evening.
The “audiovisual journey” then expands past the studio partitions, taking viewers inside ZHU’s three sold-out performances on the Hollywood Palladium, the place his signature fusion of shadowy aesthetics and haunting soundscapes got here to life.
Each a meditation on time and a visceral deep-dive into creative reinvention, 24 Hours of Grace explores ZHU’s evolution since releasing “Faded” over a decade in the past, in line with its synopsis. He is peeling again the layers of his enigmatic persona to supply an unfiltered take a look at the stress of creation and its launch by means of dwell efficiency.
24 Hours of Grace is scheduled to premiere at 11am on March fifteenth at Alamo Lamar 9. SXSW returns to Austin, Texas from March 7-15 and yow will discover the pageant’s full slate of programming right here.
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