It is true that documentary filmmaking can play an important role in understanding the world around us. This happens when documentary work, distancing itself from the forms of sensationalism that proliferate in the media space, especially on television, has the basic intelligence to deal with a complex issue, whatever it may be, without hiding, precisely, its complexity. Example to discover, now available on Netflix: Matter of Timemade by Matt Finlin, with Eddie Vedder as a prominent figure.
Ultimately, saying that Vedder is “highlighted” is a language that needs to be put into perspective. The lead singer of Pearl Jam, also with an important solo career (his most recent album, Earthlingwas released in 2022), appears, in fact, as the protagonist of a concert, but this is not a “concert film”. your performance at Benaroya Hall, in Seattle, took place in 2023 with a very precise purpose: to open the range of information about a rare disease – epidermolysis bullosa (EB) – and mobilize support for the scientific projects that are being developed to find a cure.
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