The storyteller’s story.
Nick Cave has always appeared as a man who lives halfway in the shadows. The Australian songwriter, author and artist has spent decades weaving stories of love, death, faith and sin – sometimes beautiful, often brutal, and always his own.
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Now Sky is going to peel the teams with a new, one-off documentary with the working title “The Veiled World of Nick Cave”, a deep dive into the creative universe of one of music’s most unpredictable figures.
The film, produced by Supercollider, promises something far more intimate than a standard rock documentary. Directed by Mike Christie and produced by Seb Barfield, it looks at Cave’s creative influence through the people who have shared his trajectory – a group that is almost as eccentric and poetic as the man himself.
Expect performances from Florence Welch, Warren Ellis, Colin Greenwood, Irvine Welsh, Bella Freud, and Wim Wenders, each reflecting on Cave’s influence and the strange gravity of his art. These aren’t just celebrity soundbites; They are collaborators who talk about a man whose work flows between mediums, from novels to scripts, sculpture and now ceramics.
“Nick Cave is one of those inimitable artists whose storytelling ability knows no bounds,” said Phil Edgar-Jones, Sky’s head of unplanned original content.
“His vivid landscapes are brought to life through his lyrics, his books, his music and his ceramics. We are excited to lift the lid on his wonderfully multi-layered world in this special program.”
The “multi-layered world” has always been Cave’s territory, a place where saints and sinners, angels and addicts coexist in songs that feel both biblical and punk. But “The Veiled World of Nick Cave” seems to be something else: not a celebration of fame, but an excavation of the process, the philosophy, the myth behind the man.
Fittingly, Sky doesn’t stop there. Later this year, “The Death of Bunny Munro” will be released, a six-part adaptation of Cave’s critically acclaimed 2009 novel, complete with an original score by Cave and his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis – proof that the couple’s creative fire shows no signs of cooling off.
With Cave’s world now expanding across page, screen, and song, “The Veiled World of Nick Cave” feels like a perfect invitation to step inside. Just don’t expect to come out unchanged.
“The Veiled World of Nick Cave” airs on Sky Documentaries later this year. Hopefully, we’ll get a concrete release date soon.
