Mann's Sparks (2025)
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Ryland Walker Knight’s Mann’s Sparks is a hypnotic essay film that stitches together footage from Michael Mann’s iconic filmography with Beach House’s 2015 album Depression Cherry into an editorial masterstroke. As much as the film stands as a testament to Knight’s craft as editor, it also acts as a thematic dialogue between the dream pop band’s music and the images by one of cinema’s greatest auteurs, spanning Mann’s work from Thief (1981) to Blackhat (2015). It’s a mesmeric work, both visually and sonically, acting also as a document of Knight’s own development as an editor after suffering an injury and using Mann’s footage and the band’s album to relearn how to edit. Mann’s Sparks is a spellbinding celebration of cinematic language and how it can be reused, relearned, and reimagined into new possibilities.
- Release date
- June 4, 2025
- Country of origin
- Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)
Cast
- Willie Nelson as Okla
Crew
- Ryland Walker Knight · Director
- Sean Gillane · Writer
- Ryland Walker Knight · Writer
- Sean Gillane · Producer
- Ryland Walker Knight · Producer
- Beach House · Composer
- Sean Gillane · Editor
- Ryland Walker Knight · Editor
- Eric Marsh · Editor
- Don Swaynos · Editor