“As someone who has seen countless documentaries, I feel strongly that Andersen’s SONGPOET is one of the best. Paul Lamont has made the rare film that actually creatively captures the beauty, intelligence, and emotion of an artist’s music in movie form.”
-Tom Needham, The Sounds of Film
"The camera has always loved Eric Andersen and we can be grateful that at long last he has trusted film makers Paul Lamont and Scott Sackett with painting this most personal of portraits...Prepare yourself as layer by layer, in hypnotic sequence, one is bewitched - seeing and feeling every unexpected twist and turn."
- Carolyn Hester, Singer/Songwriter
"The Songpoet…is an archaeological dig in lyric form…
a jewel of rare beauty…What makes the film stand shoulders
above its biopic peers is both its richly crafted cinematic
beauty and its philosophical insistence on the artist as a being
formed in the crucible of relationships."
- Augusta Palmer, Filmmaker
Lamont possesses a photographer’s eye…If Andersen is the “Songpoet,” then Lamont must be the “filmpoet.” This is a fine match of subject and documentary.
- John Kruth, Author, Musician
ERIC ANDERSEN
IS
"THE SONGPOET"
By 1967, the stage had been set for Greenwich Village folk musician Eric Andersen to be catapulted to international fame, rising above his contemporaries of the time. But the death of his newly acquired manager, famed Beatles impresario Brian Epstein, turned his career upside down. Five years later, he found himself again on the brink of commercial success only to suffer another devastating blow that threw his future into uncertainty. The Songpoet dives deep into conflicts of career, ego, relationships and the unrelenting pursuit of one’s purpose as it explores what it takes to keep moving forward. This is the sometimes tragic, but surprisingly uplifting story of
Eric Andersen,
"The Songpoet."
Principal filming began in December, 2011 in Buffalo, NY and wrapped in January, 2017 in Norway. During that time, there were multiple research trips to Eric Andersen's personal archives in The Netherlands as well as shoots in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Featuring
Eric Andersen
Debbie Green
Tom Paxton
John Sebastian
Willie Nile
Lenny Kaye
Clive Davis
Happy Traum
Anthony DeCurtis
Norbert Putnam
Sonny Ochs
Danny Fields
Arthur Levy
Ian MacFadyen
Jonas Fjeld
Robert Aaron
Roland Van Campenhout
Werner Meyer
Steve Addabbo
Amy Herot
Unni Askeland
Marilyn Crispell
Inge Andersen
Sari Andersen
Svein Storberget
Peggy Duncan Garner
Filmed on location in
Alexandria, Virginia
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Buffalo, New York
Charleville, France
Cologne, Germany
Drammen, Norway
Driebergen, Netherlands
Jessheim, Norway
Kløfta, Norway
Langesund, Norway
Los Angeles, California
Middleburgh, New York
Nashville, Tennessee
New York City, New York
Noordwijk, Norway
Piermont, New York
Toronto, Canada
Utrecht, Netherlands
Woodstock, New York