JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her history-making life.
SYNOPSIS
Joan Baez I Am A Noise is an unusually intimate psychological portrait of legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez. Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this immersive documentary shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Throughout the film, Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage – from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. A searingly honest look at a living legend, this film is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now.
Director
Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky & Maeve O’Boyle
WITH
Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, David Harris
Run Time
1 hour, 53 minutes
Released
October 6, 2023
Distributed by
Magnolia Pictures
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Closed Captioning
Country
United States
SUBTITLES
None
NOT RATED
Many of the films shown at The Ross are not rated due to the prohibitive cost of acquiring a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Consequently, as many of these films contain graphic content, viewer discretion is advised.
SHOWINGS
OCT 20 | FRI
4:50 p.m.
OCT 21 | SAT
3:00, 8:50 p.m.
OCT 22 | SUN
4:50, 7:15 p.m.
OCT 23 | MON
7:15 p.m.
OCT 24 | TUE
4:50 p.m.
OCT 25 | WED
7:15 p.m.
OCT 26 | THU
4:50 p.m.
REVIEWS
“The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what we learn in the thoughtful, thorough and sometimes harrowingly intimate Joan Baez: I Am a Noise is that Baez was also seeking to overcome much on a personal scale.”
“Anyone with an interest in the key artists of the counterculture movement will find much to appreciate here”
“A coherent, cohesive, and sometimes jarringly frank portrait.”