LET IT BE, LET IT BLEED
The Unlikely Rock n’ Roll Journey of Ethan Russell
A film about music, mythology, survival, and the cost of standing close enough to history to capture it.
THE BEATLES
ROLLING STONES
THE WHO
As the 1960s came to a close, a young American photographer was invited into the inner circle of the London music world. Untrained, unguarded, and impossibly close to the center of it all, Ethan Russell captured some of the most culturally consequential images of the twentieth century.
But this is not a traditional music documentary. It is a film about what happens after the dream begins to crack.
He photographed the myth. Then he had to survive it.
Ethan Russell’s photographs helped define how generations remember rock n’ roll. But behind the iconic images is a more complicated story: one of idealism, proximity, excess, discipline, memory, and survival.
