Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ ‘Tupelo’, the opening track from second album The Firstborn Is Dead, and the band have marked it by sharing a new video for the song by Andrew Dominik, director of Chopper, The Assassination Of Jesse James and One More Time With Feeling.
The film interprets Nick Cave’s song about Elvis Presley being born in the town of Tupelo as a Christ figure to save humanity from its sins, animating archival images of Elvis and natural disasters using AI. Nick Cave shared the video via his Red Hand Files newsletter, under a post titled: “Is changing your mind about things a sign of weakness?” Sometimes, it feels that way.”
Cave explained that he had previously been a strong AI sceptic, but that, “As I watched Andrew’s surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften. To some extent, my mind was changed.”
You can watch the new ‘Tupelo’ film below.
