A sincere and touching autobiopic of the electronic scene’s most intelligent hero.
In 1992, Richard Melville Hall released his first electronic album, calling it Moby after his childhood nickname, which he has been known as ever since. Almost three decades later, with the support of director Rob Gordon Bralver, he made a film about himself that looks nothing like a glossy biopic. Moby has always seemed the most fragile and complex hero of the late 1990s electronic breakthrough, and this feeling further enhanced by the documentary. A troubled childhood, punk rock, fame, meeting the Dalai Lama and David Lynch (who makes an appearance to talk about his friend), alcoholism and death of loved ones, activism and veganism, as well as music as a core and the search for the meaning of life—Moby talks about all these things as honestly and in great detail.
Moby Doc
Dir. Rob Gordon Bralver
USA, 2021. 92 min. 18+