Best Before Death
Musician Bill Drummond embarks on a global quest to create performance art in this hilarious film.
Director: Paul Duane
93 Mins / 2019 / UK
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The peppery artist and musician Bill Drummond embarks on a quest to create performance art across the globe in this engaging, sometimes hilarious documentary. Best Before Death is named after Drummond's belief that the World Tour, scheduled to end when he's 72, is a race against his own mortality. It's a film about life, death, art, money, music and cake. And some knitting.
Twenty three years ago, Bill Drummond ceased activities as part of the enormously successful pop group The KLF. Since 2014 he's been on a World Tour, travelling the world with his show - The 25 Paintings - visiting a different city each year. In each place he carries out his regular work, setting up a shoeshine stand in the street, building a bed in order to give it away, start knitting circles with whoever wants to join him, baking cakes and offering them to people whose houses sit on a circle he's drawn on a map of the city. He's not rich and he's deliberately designed his actions so they can't be monetized. He's mostly been ignored by the art world. So what is he doing it all for?
