Director Jonathan Demme had planned to shoot a “music driven” documentary in Haiti with the talented Canadian group Arcade Fire right before the quake struck, Boston Phoenix (via The Playlist) reports. As you may know Régine Chassagne, wife of lead singer Win Butler and founding member of the band is from Haiti. Check out the full quote below.
“I was heading for Haiti last Friday with the band Arcade Fire. We were going to do a music driven, kind of music documentary, against a backdrop of carnival in Jacmel — the great, now devastated, south coast Haitian city. We had our final conference call the morning of the day the quake struck. We were gonna go down anyway until we realized we can’t really get there. My personal feeling was, those who go down two months or three months from now, with a specific mission in mind, will be valuable in their own way, as the people that are going now. So I’m gonna go. I’m gonna go within the next six months, but I haven’t been yet.”
It would have been awesome to see this documentary, and I while it’s not officially dead, I can’t see it happening. Arcade Fire recently licensed their hit, Wake Up for this year’s Superbowl and gave all profits to relief funds. They also have a new album coming out this year and with a full world tour likely to follow, I can’t see them having time for this. If you want to get your Arcade Fire documentary fix, check out Vincent Morisset’s Miroir Noir on the official site. It’s a great tour documentary, released in 2008. If you want to see what Demme is up to The Playlist has a great write-up.’
Would you have liked to see a Arcade Fire documentary by Demme?