5 years after Avicii‘s demise, the story of his life and ongoing affect stays a sizzling matter, with two totally different Avicii documentaries at present in manufacturing.
Introduced in September of 2021, the primary movie will give attention to Avicii’s rise, success and well-documented struggles with the stress of that success. Produced Candamo Movie and filmed in cooperation with Swedish Nationwide Tv, the documentary (a title for which has not but been introduced) is being directed by Sweden’s Henrik Burman, who additionally directed the 2020 doc Yung Lean: In My Head. Fellow Swede Björn Tjärnberg is serving as a producer and director of images. This documentary is about for launch in 2023 and could have worldwide distribution.
A second Avicii documentary was introduced final week. No official title or launch date has been given, though a consultant for the movie notes that it’s at present in post-production.
This doc will give attention to the inventive partnership between Avicii and his former supervisor Ash Pournouri, with a press launch calling the doc “a deeply private look into the inventive {and professional} partnership [that will] chronicle Ash Pournouri’s early discovery of Tim Bergling in 2008 to the creation and evolution of the Avicii model.” This model, after all, was a industrial juggernaut of the EDM period and the template many artists of the style primarily based their very own enterprise fashions on.
Pournouri and Avicii separated in 2016, the identical 12 months Avicii introduced his retirement from touring. Two years later, on April 20, 2018, the producer died by suicide in Muscat, Oman.
The Pournouri-focused documentary is being produced by Lawrence Bender, whose credit embody Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards and the 2006 local weather change doc An Inconvenient Fact. The movie can also be being produced and directed by Dutch director/expertise supervisor Orlando John, with co-direction from Lithuanian director Jonas Trakunas.
Neither documentaries are official initiatives of the Avicii property. Each will function interviews with members of Avicii’s household, together with fellow artists and dance business figures.
“My aim is to supply an sincere and new perspective on each the artist Avicii and Tim’s life,” Burman stated upon the 2021 announcement of his movie. “I need this to be a movie that surprises the viewers and challenges the general public’s picture of Sweden’s greatest worldwide artist of at present and, in doing so, additionally shine a light-weight on what his music has meant to so many individuals.”
In the meantime, in a press launch Orlando John notes that “Folks assume they know the story however they’ve actually no clue as to what really occurred. I really feel a profound duty to make sure that its advised precisely and objectivity. This documentary will give the audiences a deeper understanding of the model that left an indelible mark on music and tradition.”
These two documentaries come six years after launch of the primary Avicii documentary, True Tales. Capturing the producer within the period when he was winding down his touring schedule within the wake of his a lot publicized interval of burnout, this unofficial documentary was controversial for its depiction of the producer born Tim Bergling in what turned out to be the latter a part of his life. It’s not obtainable on Netflix and at present unavailable on Amazon within the U.S.
The Avicii story can also be documented within the 2022 Avicii biography Tim. Written by Swedish investigative journalism Måns Mosesson, the e book relies on his a whole bunch of interviews, with Mosesson additionally getting access to Bergling’s private texts and emails going again a decade. The Avicii Expertise, a museum targeted on Bergling’s rise, life, music and affect, opened in his native Stockholm final February.
