Best Before Death

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About Best Before Death

Bill Drummond says about the traditional art scene, “What's the point of making something to hang on a rich man's wall?”

Bill’s art is to create a community and hold it - like a whole note - for as long as possible. He attracts strangers by performing mundane tasks in public - shining shoes, baking cakes - and also by marching with a bass drum. BEST BEFORE DEATH follows Drummond to crowded Kolkota, India and to sparsely populated Lexington, North Carolina. He performs the same tasks to very different reactions. While Bill explores the meaning of art in these starkly different communities, this film explores the meaning of documentary. Drummond is known for his work in music with The KLF, whose hilarious and incendiary criticism of the capitalist entertainment industry remains unparalleled, but this film is about none of that. Often challenging, frequently funny, oddly heartwarming, BEST BEFORE DEATH follows this man - part mediaeval saint, part artistic visionary - on his strange pilgrimage.

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