{"id":4468,"date":"2020-07-16T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2020-07-17T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:41:02","slug":"best-before-death-blu-ray-available-to-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/best-before-death-blu-ray-available-to-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"“Best Before Death” Blu-Ray Available To Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been shown in various venues around the UK since 2019, the home cinema release of Paul Duane’s feature-length documentation Best Before Death<\/strong><\/em> is now available for pre-order<\/a> from the website of UK distributor Anti-Worlds.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three years ago, Bill Drummond ceased activities as part of the enormously successful pop group, the KLF.<\/p>\n

Since 2014, he\u2019s been on a World Tour, travelling around the world with his show \u2013 The 25 Paintings<\/em> \u2013 visiting a different city each year. In December 2016, he based himself in Kolkata, while in the Spring of 2018, he was in Lexington, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

In each place, he carries out his regular work, setting up a shoeshine stand in the street or building a bed in order to give it away.<\/p>\n

He walks across the longest bridge he can find, banging his parade drum at dawn, starts knitting circles with anyone who wants to join him, bakes cakes and offers them to strangers whose houses sit on a circle he\u2019s drawn on a map of the city.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not rich, and he\u2019s deliberately designed his actions so they cannot be monetised. He\u2019s mostly been ignored by the art world. So what is he doing it all for? Director Paul Duane shadowed Bill Drummond for three years before starting this film in order to achieve some level of understanding of what he\u2019s about. Co-produced by Grammy Award-winning writer Robert Gordon and shot by Oscar-nominated DOP Robbie Ryan, the documentary is a fascinating look at an uncompromising artist.<\/p>\n

Best Before Death<\/em> is named after Drummond\u2019s belief that the World Tour, scheduled to end when he\u2019s 72, is a race against his own mortality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a film about life, death, art, money, music, and cake. And some knitting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Filmed over the course of two years, Best Before Death<\/strong><\/em> follows Bill on his 12-Year World Tour through the streets of Kolkata, India, and Lexington, North Carolina, where he tries to perform various tasks he has imposed upon himself in the past, including shining shoes<\/a>, making beds<\/a>, and baking cake<\/a>.<\/p>\n