Film
Mann's Sparks
2025 · 52m
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Overview
Ryland Walker Knight’s Mann’s Sparks is a hypnotic essay film that stitches together footage from Michael Mann’s iconic filmography with Beach House’s 2015 album Depression Cherry into an editorial masterstroke. As much as the film stands as a testament to Knight’s craft as editor, it also acts as a thematic dialogue between the dream pop band’s music and the images by one of cinema’s greatest auteurs, spanning Mann’s work from Thief (1981) to Blackhat (2015). It’s a mesmeric work, both visually and sonically, acting also as a document of Knight’s own development as an editor after suffering an injury and using Mann’s footage and the band’s album to relearn how to edit. Mann’s Sparks is a spellbinding celebration of cinematic language and how it can be reused, relearned, and reimagined into new possibilities.
Crew
- Ryland Walker KnightDirector · Editor
- Sean GillaneEditor
- Eric MarshEditor
- Kurt WalkerEditor
- Don SwaynosEditor
Details
- Release date
- June 4, 2025
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 52m
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