Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith in 1969, by Norman Seeff, via carlosdynamo
“Life is an adventure of our own design,” says Patti Smith, “intersected by fate in a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.” Like her heroes Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan, part of Patti Smith’s mystique has always been that she’s elusive and hard to pin down. Before Patti Smith: Dream of Life, the feature film debut of fashion photographer Steven Sebring, it was difficult to find Smith on screen outside of concert footage and some early collaborations with Robert Mapplethorpe. It’s likely that Smith would have said “no” to a known filmmaker aiming to make her the subject of a conventional documentary.
film-forward.com über den Dokumentarfilm PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE, via nevver