Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen on how David Bowie helped him to recover from a heart attack.
Moonage Daydream takes its title from a track on David Bowie's album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
"David Bowie changed my life. I first came to him as I became a teenager, and his impact was tremendous. Then, just as I started working on this film, I suffered a massive heart attack. I flatlined for three minutes and was in a coma. "He transitioned me from childhood, and then he transitioned me from being a man-child to being a proper father. That to me was his greatest gift. I had no idea going into this how he would impact my life."Morgen, who also made the 2015 film Cobain: Montage of Heck, about the life and death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, premiered the new film this week at the Cannes Film Festival - and danced on the red carpet to Bowie's music.
"My personal favourite moment in the process was finding material of the 1975 Soul tour [which] I didn't know was in existence," he adds. "But I want the film to be more than the sum of its parts of footage."Brett Morgen directed the new film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday Bowie's marriage to Somali supermodel and actress Iman in the early 1990s was another pivotal point. The couple were married for nearly 25 years until his death.
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