Swans: Where Does a Body End?

2019 ""Michael is not a fearless person, but he is a fearless artist.""

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Swans: Where Does a Body End?

7.7 | 2h41m | en | Documentary

From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982--singer, songwriter Michael Gira. 'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"

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7.7 | 2h41m | en | Documentary , Music

Synopsis

Cast

Michael Gira , Jarboe , Thurston Moore

Director

Christian Storms

Producted By

Eyelight Films ,

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Cast

Michael Gira

as Self

[2025] Michael Gira: I Wonder If I’m Singing What You’re Thinking Me to Sing (Live Solo 2022) [2025] Swans: (Rope) The Beggar (Live 2024) [2019] Swans: Where Does a Body End? [2017] Parallel Planes [2017] Swans: Moers Festival 2017 [2016] Swans: The Glowing Man - Live 2015 [2015] Swans: Open'er Festival, Gdynia [2014] Swans - To Be Kind Live [2014] Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

Jarboe

as Self

[2024] I am Perfectly Normal: Part III [2023] I am Perfectly Normal: Part II [2022] I am Perfectly Normal: Part I [2019] Swans: Where Does a Body End? [1997] Swans: Swans Are Dead (Amsterdam) [1987] Kings of Independence [1986] Swans: A Long Slow Screw.

Thurston Moore

as Self

[2026] Broken English [2026] The Last Critic [2026] The Best Summer [2025] Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt [2025] Sonic Youth: Live in 1991 [2024] Scala!!! [2024] Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story [2024] Uncropped [2024] The Road to Ruane