(Toronto) A documentary on Canadian folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is expected this spring on the Amazon Prime Video platform.
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Lightheaded: A Gordon Lightfood State of Mindwhich premiered on a special Thursday night in Toronto, is a love letter to the musician and the meaningful impact his classic songs such as Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgeraldhave on listeners, especially those who refer to themselves as “Lightheads.”
The documentary traces a group of them, led by producer and longtime fan John Corcoran, as they travel the world in hopes of capturing the energy of Gordon Lightfoot on stage.
Much of the footage was taken during his UK and British Isles tour in 2016.
Interviews with Gordon Lightfoot and his bandmates are scattered throughout the film to offer insights into the lives of touring musicians.
John Corcoran, 67, claims to have seen Gordon Lightfoot in concert more than 400 times since his cousin first played the album for him Sit Down Young Strangerreleased in 1970, when he was a teenager.
” I heard Minstrel of the Dawn and I was off to the Milky Way,” he said of the album’s first track.
After hearing their father play Gordon Lightfoot music all their lives, his two children decided they wanted to turn his unwavering love into a real movie, even though they had never made a documentary before.
“It’s a perspective that only we have because of dad here and the years of friendship that developed,” co-director Brady Corcoran said of what he and his sister brought to the film.
Lightheaded was created with the COVID-19 pandemic as its backdrop, making the images of crowded concerts and gatherings of friends carry an eerie nostalgia for a bygone era.
“It’s almost a frozen-in-time image from six years ago, when everything seemed almost naive,” said co-director Baylee Kahlon.
Watch these moments at the premiere of Lightheaded was a reminder that this was a rare and valuable opportunity to come together for a film screening that might not have happened just a few months ago.
“To have people safely gathered together was amazing to imagine [à un certain moment], pointed out Baylee Kahlon. That this event took place is a dream come true. »