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on another journey, and the process
always inspires me.
Do your shared sensibilities
extend into music?
Lachman: Bob Dylan was always
influential for me growing up, so [I'm
Not There, 2007] was a film I really
wanted to be involved in with Todd.
Back in the early '70s, I had done
a promo video for Lou Reed [for
the 1973 Berlin album]. Lou came
up and kicked the tripod out from
under me. I was in shock, grabbing
onto the camera as he told me, 'Do
it like Andy [Warhol]!'
Later, I directed a performance
film of the album Songs for Drella
[1990] for Lou and John Cale - an
homage and memorial to Andy three
years after he died. During that
shoot I mentioned the tripod incident
to Lou and he said, 'Oh, I don't
remember much from back then.'
Haynes: Ed has had his hand in
every phase of filmmaking, touching
back to European art cinema from
the '60s when he was coming of
age. He's studied under great filmmakers
and artists and DoPs from
that period, so when we discuss the
great American era of independent
film, [Ed often has] a direct link to
people we're talking about.
Were Ed's firsthand experiences
helpful to you?
Haynes: I always felt an easy
atmosphere because Ed had a
history with so many of the people
who were there. It made them feel
comfortable. It would have been
interesting if Lou Reed was around
[he died in 2013], but I know that
Ed being the DoP put John Cale at
ease.
What was the initial spark for
this project?
Haynes: [Reed's widow] Laurie
Anderson decided to make his
archives available to the New York
Public Library, and Universal Music
Group - which controls the masters
of Verve Records [the Velvets'
first label] - asked her if this would
also be time for a documentary on
the band, which had never been
done conclusively. Shortly thereafter
Laurie and I met, and then
we were contacted by [UMG head
of film and TV production] David
Blackman about doing this.
I knew there wasn't traditional
material featuring the band, and Lou
Reed is not with us and [vocalist]
Nico is gone [she died in 1988], so
the project would come with inherent
challenges. But that's why you
do things, too.
The film is presented largely
in split screen with shots from
avant-garde 1960s movies next to
talking-head interviews, allowing
the viewer to marinate in the art
scene that helped give rise to The
Velvet Underground. Did you want
to make the documentary 'like
Andy'?
Haynes: We had an amazing opportunity
to include the entirety of
the avant-garde filmmaking culture
that was so prolific and robust at
that time. Jonas Mekas was really
the central force - he always had a
venue for showing filmmakers from
New York and beyond, from older
experimental cinema to the newest
thing Warhol rolled out of his camera
through the 1960s. These were
gathering places for all these artists
we're talking about in visual art,
music, performance and poetry.
I was thinking we were going to
be predominantly referring to the
Opposite: The Velvet
Underground's John Cale, Sterling
Morrison and Lou Reed perform
in the 1960s. This page, top:
Ed Lachman, ASC frames an
interview with Cale for the new
documentary. Bottom: Lachman
shooting the feature Wonderstruck
with Velvet Underground director
Todd Haynes.
NOVEMBER 2021 / 17
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IMAGES COURTESY OF APPLE.
WONDERSTRUCK IMAGE COURTESY OF AMAZON STUDIOS.
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