Directors: Jeroen Berkvens
Script: Vladas Naudzius
Editor: Stefan Kamp
Sound: Michel Schöpping, Eddy de Cloe
Producer: JB Macrander
Production: Luijten Macrander Produkties/JB Macrander for Humanist Broadcasting Foundation
Distribution: NOS Sales
Selected Filmography Jeroen Berkvens: Mirror of Time, 1998; Ulay in Photography, 1997; Borderline Cases, 1996; Fields Where Once Troy, 1995; LoladaMusica, 1994; Candy Strip (Music Video for Urban Dance Squad), 1994; Let me have it all, 1994.
Nick Drake, at present more popular than ever due to a song of his used in a Rabbit convertible commercial, died in 1974, presumably from an overdose. Other films about musicians are rockumentaries with giant stage shows, excessive drug taking, ravished hotel rooms. But how does one approach Nick Drake, a songwriter who never appeared on film, a man who broke off his only tour after the second concert because he couldn’t get the audience to ‘really listen’?” Jeroen Berkvens finds metaphors for things he can’t show. He combines breathtaking landscape shots with compassionate interviews to create a new kind of cinematic composition that doesn’t present Nick Drake’s music and life from a distance, but palpably. In a calmly paced film, he musters an intensity that grips viewers up to the very end.