Disappear Here

The Story

The vexed question of how to live an artistic life is illustrated in DISAPPEAR HERE, the story of Australian 90's alternative group Glide and founding songwriter William Arthur - in an atmospheric, texturally rich exploration of thwarted ambition in the independent music scene of 1990's Sydney. This extraordinary artist and the shifting sands of the music industry are revisited by band members as well as Aussie music industry luminaries including Tim Rogers (You Am I), Jamie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss), Peter Fenton (Crow) and Jane Gazzo (ABC's Recovery and Triple J). DISAPPEAR HERE is a completely independent production which was directed, shot, edited and written by Ben deHoedt.

For now using the medium of  "music documentary" film making, Ben is most concerned with weaving a spell, bringing the viewer into a world and finding the human relational themes in the stories he brings to the screen.

“Glide were such an influential band to me throughout the ‘90s. William Arthur's darkly evocative and often ambiguous lyrics, spectral and pastoral chord voicings, and beautifully gnarled sense of harmony was a kind of cathartic sorcery to me. I wanted to write songs like that. Even in their more straight-ahead pop songs, something in there makes you want to listen again and live in that world for a little longer….

I've always been a film guy, and when I set out to make this documentary, I aimed to create something that has a universality to it: a documentary that isn't just for music doc fans, and a music doc that isn't just for Glide fans.

Rating

CTC

Duration

90 min

Director

Ben deHoedt

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