BFI to put out Bodysong on DVD with Jonny Greenwood's commentary

The British Film Institute is putting Bodysong, a 2003 film, out on DVD on 22 March, with an audio commentary by Jonny Greenwood and the film's director, Simon Pummell. The American DVD and VCI's British one had interviews with the two men but no commentary, so this is the first time either has talked over the film on disc. The BFI disc also carries an interview with Pummell, two of his short films, Blinded by the Light and How Long is a Minute?, and the trailer.

Pummell built Bodysong from footage that already existed, from newsreels to home movies, rather than shooting his own, and it tells a human life from birth to death. It won Best British Documentary at the 2003 British Independent Film Awards. It was Jonny's first film score, and the soundtrack album his first record of his own; Colin Greenwood plays bass on it.

Pummell calls the film a celebration, and also an indictment, of humanity¹.

The BFI's trailer for its Bodysong DVD· BFITrailerswatch on youtube →