The Manic Street Preachers have shared a trailer for their upcoming movie Truth and Memory.
The movie will feature never-seen-before footage of the band during their climb to fame in the 90’s. The feature has been directed by Kieran Evans and contains clips from a jumble of VHS tapes from 15 years ago. You can watch the trailer here:
“It all started on a wintry October day last year with me taking delivery of a plastic bag full of VHS and DV tapes shot by photographer Mitch Ikeda and Wire, a jumble of audio cassettes and mini-discs and a large selection of photos and polaroids,” Evans told NME.
“The initial plan was for me to make a fifteen minute short with a rule to only use material from October 1997 through to November 1998. The VHS and DV tapes probably hadn’t been viewed for over fifteen years and there was little info on what each one contained. I spent weeks scrolling through videotapes so as to discover what might have been captured during those times and what might be usable.
He continued: “Luckily each tape I viewed contained a little bit of gold dust; incredible events and revealing moments had been filmed that couldn’t be ignored and so the idea of a fifteen minute short got jettisoned for something a lot longer and expansive.”
Truth and Memory will be released on YouTube January 17.
