Dan Mangan announces world premiere of new documentary, online on October 30
ALL TOGETHER NOW - A Dan Mangan Film by Amazing Factory captures his 2019 Vancouver homecoming show at the Vogue
VANCOUVER SINGER-SONGWRITER Dan Mangan has announced that October 30 marks the release of a new documentary about him.
ALL TOGETHER NOW - A Dan Mangan Film by Amazing Factory is not quite a “concert doc”, Mangan says in a newsletter. “To be honest, I've never seen a film quite like this. It's somewhat akin to Waking Life meets Stop Making Sense.”
Mangan had asked Amazing Factory, a film production house, to document his homecoming Vancouver show at the Vogue Theatre in February of 2019. This was the end of his band’s More or Less tour.
“Under Andy Huculiak's direction, they didn't just capture a concert - they went beyond,” Mangan says. “They solicited voicemail recordings from dozens (hundreds?) of attendees. They captured songs unconventionally from within the crowd and throughout the venue, at times obscured by the shoulders of taller audience members in front of them. And then, to juxtapose the densely populated theatre ("More"), they spent days out in nature finding moments of perfectly peaceful solace in nature ("or Less").
“We were all thrilled with the footage, but everybody was busy and we just didn't get around to moving the project forward,” he says. “Then comes the pandemic. We re-watched what they'd captured, and it all seemed so vivid, but also like a distant memory. A dream of a dream. And so they approached the film like a dream. Interviews, music and nature come and go like surreal fragments.”
While Amazing Factory has made some notable feature films, Mangan notes that he first came to know several members of the collective through their work in the band We Are The City. More recently, they launched a "hyper-pop" project called Big Kill that is “objectively bonkers”.
During the film screening, Mangan will be in the chat with viewers. Immediately afterward, audience members will be given access to a Zoom Q&A with him and the Amazing Factory members—with space for the first 1,000 people who smash the link.
The film can be viewed on demand by ticket holders until the end of 2021.
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