END OF THE DAY/VINYLE BLANC CLAIR/MUSIC DU FILM ANONYMOUS CLUB

Description

Anonymous Club is Danny Cohen's candid documentary about the personal struggles and hard-won triumphs of Courtney Barnett as she climbed the ranks of independent rock over the past decade. A carefully redemptive portrait, any happy ending reflects the possibilities of achievement and stability, not the things themselves. In May 2021, a few months before the film's release, Courtney Barnett and her collaborator Stella Mozgawa met with Cohen in Melbourne to shape a score that matched this premise – nothing too obvious or instructive, to tell the audience what they should feel. Barnett found that she enjoyed listening to what the duo had created, existing in her thoughtful gaze. She began sorting these little instrumentals like amebic puzzle pieces, determining how they fit into a complete picture. The result is a cohesive series of 17 instrumental improvisations titled End of the Day: Music from the Film 'Anonymous Club', a reimagined soundtrack as an impressionistic collage of sound art. Like Barnett's rock songs, they pose difficult questions about our softer parts without words, wondering what we truly find there.