The film is getting a cinematic release to coincide with the dub legend's 80th birthday, with DVD and streaming releases to follow
To
mark the 80th birthday of dub founding father Lee 'Scratch' Perry, a
feature-length documentary about him entitled Vision
Of Paradise will be
screened in cinemas across the UK in February and March. Somewhat
unusually - or at least it seems unusual to us, but then we never
claimed to be film buffs - the movie is being shown for one night
only in each cinema (in most cases), so the film's effectively going
'on tour'.
Vision
Of Paradise
is directed by Volker Schaner, who's been following Perry around with
a camera crew for the past 15 years. The result is said to be a
uniquely personal portait of one of music's truly unique characters,
and one that's “in
turns funny, poetic and frequently mind-blowing.”
The
full list of screenings announced so far is as follows:
Kinokulture,
Oswestry (5 Feb)
First
Site, Colchester (5 Feb)
QFT,
Belfast (6 Feb)
Glasgow
Film Theatre (7 Feb)
Broadway,
Nottingham (7 Feb)
Picturehouse
Central, London (17 Feb)
Home
Cinema, Manchester (18 Feb)
MAC,
Birmingham (24 & 25 Feb)
Borderlines
Film Festival, Hereford (26 Feb)
Irish
Film Institute, Dublin (27 Feb)
Picture
House, Hebden Bridge (28 Feb, 3 Mar)
FACT,
Liverpool (29 Feb)
Komedia,
Brighton (2 Mar)
The
Cube, Bristol (16 Mar)
Brewery
Arts Centre, Kendall (22 Mar)
There
are more screenings still TBA, though, so if your town's not listed
keep an eye on the film's official website.
Alternatively, you can hang on for the DVD and streaming (via iTunes,
Amazon Prime and Netflix) release on 8 April.
The
London showing of the film includes a Q&A with Schaner, while
Perry will also be playing a handful of UK live dates to promote the
film. Catch him at:
The
Duke Of Cumberland, Whitstable (11 Mar)
Electric,
Brighton (12 Mar)
Concorde,
Brighton (13 Mar)
Brewery
Arts Centre, Kendall (16 Mar)
Tags: Lee 'Scratch' Perry, film, documentary, reggae, dub