Watch Trailer To Tim Sutton‘s Memphis, starring singer Willis Earl BealPosted by Wilson Morales
August 19, 2014
Kino Lorber has released the trailer to Tim Sutton‘s Memphis, which opens in NY on Friday, September 5th exclusively at the IFC Center in New York and on September 12th in Los Angeles at the Sundance Sunset Cinemas.
In MEMPHIS, a strange singer with ‘god given talent’ drifts through the mythic city of Memphis under its canopy of ancient oak trees, shattered windows, and burning spirituality. Surrounded by lovers, legends, hustlers, preachers, and a wolfpack of kids, the unstable performer avoids the recording studio and is driven to spend time in his own form of self-discovery. Shown in fragments, his journey drags him from love and happiness right to the edge of another dimension. Featuring an explosive performance and score from the singular recording artist-come-wizard, Willis Earl Beal, MEMPHIS is a film steeped in folklore, music, surrealism, and the abstract search for glory.
A maverick artist with an idiosyncratic but rigorous vision for his music, performances, writing, and drawings, Wills Earl Beal’s evocative voice touches the outer edge of folk, soul, gospel, and R & B. In his words and gestures, Beal strives to follow in the footsteps of curious, adventuresome storytellers like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and David Lynch, artists whose peculiar view of things renders even the most ordinary aspects of life strange and unnervingly emotional. His latest album EXPERIMENTS IN TIME was recently released by CD Baby. From inner monologues and banal details rises the soulful, evocative music that marks Beal’s return to his own unique sound and process.
