A lively and energetic young boy, he dreams of moving into a new home and having his very own space again.Īnd Yonan, who arrived from Iraq as an asylum seeker, loves living in Sighthill after spending 13 years in an Iranian jail. Robert shares a bedroom with five sisters after his room became uninhabitable due to mould and dampness on the walls. He faces one of the most challenging and uncertain periods of his life as his mother tragically dies. New houses were being constructed in the shadow of the towers, signalling the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the people who were determined to stay and help rebuild this once thriving community.Īward-winning film-maker Darren Hercher follows the day-to-day existence of teenager Gary, who spent much of his troubled childhood in care and returns to Sighthill where most of his family still live. Sighthill tells the story of a handful of these residents who lived or frequented the almost empty remaining two blocks before demolition. Ten massive tower blocks once stood tall at Glasgow's Sighthill Estate.īuilt in the 1960s, this iconic development was home to thousands of residents before a historic regeneration project swept through the estate demolishing all the high rises over the past decade. This film is not a comprehensive overview of his entire career, but an in-depth exploration of its pivotal moments and a look at how the themes, the narrative, the approach are consistent - it is simply the palette that changes. This is what lies at the heart of his success and appeal, music that deals with what it means to be human in a way that goes far beyond the normal palette of a rock star. Bowie’s urge to communicate feelings of spirituality, alienation and fame underpin his greatest works, from the 1960s to 2016. Viewers will see Major Tom reflected in Blackstar Diamond Dogs in the play Lazarus and Fame in the song The Stars (Are Out Tonight). The film explores how Bowie was a far more consistent artist than many interpretations of his career would have us believe, by tracing the core themes from his final works through his incredible back catalogue. These were artistic rebirth, a shedding of skins, a quest for a different palette to express the same big ideas - dissonance, alienation, otherness - the human condition. Through the prism of this last work the film shows how, in his final five years, Bowie not only began producing music again but returned to the core and defining themes of his career. It takes a detailed look at Bowie’s last albums The Next Day and Blackstar, and his play Lazarus. It follows the widely acclaimed film David Bowie: Five Years, first broadcast on BBC Two in 2013. This film - to be broadcast on the night before what would have been Bowie’s 70th birthday - is an intimate portrait of one of the defining artists of our time, told by the people who knew him best: his friends and artistic collaborators. But perhaps no period in David Bowie’s extraordinary career raised more fascination, more surprise, and more questions, than the last five years. There was nothing predictable about David Bowie - everything was designed to intrigue, to challenge, to defy all expectations.
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