FILMED IN DECEMBER 2019 AT VANCOUVER’S VOGUE THEATRE, ALL TOGETHER NOW REIMAGINES THE CONCERT DOC GENRE
TICKETS FOR THE WORLD WIDE PREMIERE, OCTOBER 30, ARE ON SALE NOW THROUGH SIDE DOOR
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As memories, our favorite concerts are not recollected as linear events, but as fragmented pieces of a collective experience. In hopes of touching the warmth of these moments, we keep them nearby like cherished novels in the bookshelves of our minds. All Together Now is the concert doc reimagined. Akin to our mind’s eye, the film approaches documentation with an abandon for linear history. We don’t witness an evening from the past so much as feel its gravity. Beautiful and abstracted concert footage from Dan Mangan’s 2019 homecoming show at Vancouver’s historic Vogue Theatre is artfully woven within the narrative, philosophy and context of what it means to be in concert with people.
Produced by Amazing Factory, All Together Now was captured unconventionally from within the crowd. Often, we see the show from eye level, interspersed with voicemails from audience members who reflect upon their experiences. Songs seemingly don’t truly begin or end, but wander in and out of reflective vignettes about the importance of human connection - as well as our lack of it, from within the lens of a pandemic.
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“I am absolutely floored with what Amazing Factory has put together. Andrew, Josh, and Cayne are wizards, and they have tapped into something unique, evocative and human,” says Mangan, “this piece of work goes so far beyond the typical capturing of a concert. With all that has happened since 2019, I’m just so thankful to be able to share this.”
On the documentary, Amazing Factory’s Andrew Huculiak says, “The show was shot in 2019 with the goal to ask simple and open questions: What is a concert anyway? How are the individual and collective represented in this experience? What's it actually like to be at a show? Camera A is in the audience, surrounded by bodies, sometimes fixated, other times searching. Vantage points are obscured — a head or a mic in the way. There is a roughness around the edges. There are zone-out moments where the mind is given permission to wander, transcendent moments that are a regular fixture at concerts. Voice memos were collected at the show, giving witness to the vast array of perspectives and contexts in the room. We totally opened ourselves to whatever was revealed.
And then, as 2020 arrived, our openness revealed an emotional retelling of the power of a show when shows ceased to exist. The themes were all there, waiting for us: COVID and the emptiness that accompanied it, how nature connects us to our consciousness, and, most clearly, the collective experience of a show and the impact it has on us.
Serendipitously we arrived at this vision, this pressurized anticipation to return to these transcendent moments. But it's within reach now — it's hopeful.”
On Saturday, October 30 at 12pm PT, the documentary will premiere world wide followed by a live, interactive Q&A with the audience over Zoom featuring Dan Mangan and Amazing Factory. Tickets are available on a sliding scale, name-your-price basis and can be purchased through Side Door. The documentary will be available on-demand for all ticket holders until December 31, 2021, and tickets will be available to purchase until that date.
TICKETS FOR THE WORLD WIDE PREMIERE, OCTOBER 30, ARE ON SALE NOW THROUGH SIDE DOOR
Over the past 10 years, Dan Mangan has transitioned from a bearded 20-something troubadour playing open mics to earning top ten radio hits, scoring Hollywood films, winning multiple JUNO Awards, and selling out legendary venues like Massey Hall. In November of 2018, Dan Mangan released, More Or Less, his most personal album to date that grapples with being a new father in an increasingly tumultuous world. He followed that release with two world tours, his debut appearance on American late night television (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and the re-release of his breakout album Nice Nice Very Nice (10th Anniversary Edition), which serendipitously was certified Gold the month it was released.
Mangan had planned to tour the reissue in celebration of its 10th anniversary, but the Coronavirus shutdown put a stop to that. However, as the co-founder of Side Door, an alternative concert booking start up, he pivoted the business to host ticketed online concerts and has been holding regular events for thousands of fans throughout the pandemic.