Details of Daniel Johnston’s troubled, inspirational life were covered extensively in 2005 with the feature-length documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, but Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston is a different type of project altogether.
With funding from a successful Kickstarter campaign, filmmaker Gabriel Sunday put together this experimental fifteen-minute short film starring himself and Daniel Johnston, in which the two of them represent past and present. Lana Del Rey, who was a backer of the project, is credited as an executive producer, and can be heard covering Johnston’s classic “Some Things Last a Long Time” in the trailer. You can watch that (and decide whether or not it holds a candle to Built to Spill’s cover) below.
Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston is out online November 11.
(via The Guardian)
