The Secret Performance Bob Dylan Filmed for the Nobel Committee
Director John Hillcoat shares the never-heard story, plus discusses his work on Desert Trip and several music video projects
In the 2010s, director John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Road, George & Tammy) worked with Bob Dylan on several different film projects. The first was a new music video for “Visions of Johanna,” to promote 2015’s The Cutting EdgeBootleg Series. Dylan didn’t appear in the video—in fact, Hillcoat hadn’t even met him yet—but he gave notes.
From there, their collaborations grew more direct. Next came the Desert Trip music festival, the giant 2016 concert bringing together six of the biggest names in the ’60s-rock pantheon for two blowout weekends in California. Hillcoat was brought in to oversee what would be shown on the screens behind Dylan. It was the biggest screen in the world at that time, a fact Dylan did not necessarily view as a good thing. As Hillcoat recounts, this situation caused no shortage of backstage drama.
There were a couple other music video ideas that came and went before Hillcoat’s final project with Dylan: Several days in a film studio outside Dublin shooting a private performance to be shown to the Nobel Committee. The details of this project have never been reported before. It was to serve as Dylan’s acceptance speech of a sort, a private video to present to the Nobel people in order for him to collect his prize. After days of filming and editing, though—well, I’ll let Hillcoat explain what happened.
Since this is a long conversation covering several distinct projects, I’ve inserted mini-headlines to serve as guideposts, starting with…
“VISIONS OF JOHANNA” MUSIC VIDEO
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 Buy now: http://smarturl.it/BD_LP?IQid=ytd.bd.voj About the Album: · Takes you inside the studio for the recording of three of Bob Dylan’s most iconic albums · A treasure trove of unreleased songs, outtakes, rehearsals and alternate versions Visions Of Johanna video directed by John Hillcoat
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