If you’re like me, you’ve found yourself thinking more than once that Tim Hecker’s music has got just the right amount of ambient melancholy to make a great soundtrack for a documentary about something really sad that happened in the past. Well, person like me, first off, hi! It’s nice to meet you. Second, we’re not the only ones who think that. As it happens, Tim Hecker (or as I call him in my dreams where we’re besties, “The Heckerman”) himself thinks his music would make a great soundtrack to a documentary about something really sad that happened in the past. As Pitchfork reports, he’s composed an original score for the upcoming documentary film Massacred for Gold.
Pulling from R. Gregory Nokes’ book of the same name, the film tells tells the story of a group of Oregon miners in 1887 who were murdered in an anti-Chinese immigrant massacre. Directed by Vernon Lott and Jennifer Anderson, the film will debut at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival between November 7 and 17. You can watch the film’s trailer below. This is Lott and Anderson’s third collaboration, following 2010’s Bad Writing (which featured interviews with the likes of George Saunders, David Sedaris, and Margaret Atwood) and 2011’s Confluence.
And don’t forget, Hecker’s tribute to the only truly safe form of sex, Virgins, is also out this week, so hop on that in the most abstinent way you possibly can.
• Massacred for Gold: http://www.massacred.net
• Tim Hecker: http://www.sunblind.net