{"id":25978,"date":"2023-09-19T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25978"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:21:15","slug":"have-you-got-it-yet-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/have-you-got-it-yet-part-2-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Got it Yet? (Part 2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part One<\/a>…<\/i><\/p>\n

A musician himself, Bogawa had long been intrigued by Barrett\u2019s life and legend, and held a special fascination for Barrett\u2019s unconventional approach to songwriting. \u201cI had been in a band in college, and the bass player was obsessed with Piper at the Gates of Dawn<\/i>,\u201d Bogawa recalls with a hearty laugh. \u201cWe tried to figure out the songs, but we never could, because they were so peculiar<\/i>!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thorgerson\u2019s participation would open some doors that likely would otherwise have remained tightly shut. Have You Got It Yet<\/i> features candid and revelatory interviews with many of Barrett\u2019s close friends associates and even family members. Several former girlfriends provide notably keen insight and vivid recollections.<\/p>\n

What Thorgerson didn\u2019t reveal to Bogawa \u2013 at least not initially \u2013 is that he was dying. Already wheelchair bound in the wake of a 2003 stroke, he was succumbing to cancer. But he kept working on the Barrett film as long as he could. Thorgerson organized and conducted many of the key interviews that are featured in the film, including conversations with David Gilmour and Roger Waters. It was around that time that Bogawa had a poignant epiphany. \u201cI realized that Storm was using the film to say goodbye to all his friends,\u201d he says. \u201cIt became very\u2026 intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And that intensity lent a genuine and visceral quality to the footage. Bogawa credits the intimacy of those interviews as a product of the circumstances. \u201cStorm knew all of them,\u201d he says, \u201cso they couldn’t make stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though he was suffering, Thorgerson persisted. \u201cHe kind of barreled along,\u201d Bogawa says, his fondness and respect for Thorgerson clearly evident. And even though Thorgerson wouldn’t live to see the long-gestating film come to fruition \u2013 he died in 2013 at age 69 \u2013 his presence informs the movie. \u201cI\u2019ve given him a co-director’s credit on the film,\u201d Bogawa says.<\/p>\n

\"\"Drawing from those interviews \u2013 and from a dazzling wealth of still and moving images from the Barrett and Pink Floyd archives, including many rarely-seen treasures \u2013 Bogawa weaves together a non-linear story that nonetheless holds together as a compelling narrative. The director believes that Barrett\u2019s trajectory has resonance and relevance that extends well beyond the man himself. \u201cIt’s an interesting story,\u201d he suggests, \u201cthis idea that somebody that finds their creative outlet \u2013 music, poetry, painting or whatever \u2013 that [represents] a way to express what’s inside them, whatever it<\/i> is: demons or angels or whatever. And then, all of a sudden, success shifts everything around them.\u201d Have You Got It Yet?<\/i> explores the question: what happens next?<\/p>\n

Bogawa\u2019s film presents a nuanced, multilayered and complex portrait of Syd Barrett. In the process, Have You Got It Yet?<\/i> dispels more than a few myths while confirming others. The director mentions a story that has been recounted in many biographies about Syd. \u201cIn every [other] documentary, they’ve talked about this neighbor who would hear Syd screaming and banging his head on the wall in the middle of the night, and that this was a marker that he was kind of insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Bogawa recalls perusing an auction house catalog published shortly after Barrett\u2019s passing. \u201cThey auctioned off all of his furniture, and there were all these artists\u2019 benches where he had extended the legs by about four inches. I was looking at that when I realized, \u2018Wait a minute: Maybe he was building<\/i> stuff!\u2019\u201d Bogawa suggests that many people were projecting their own ideas onto their concept of Barrett, in the process creating \u201cthis character that people were portraying.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In contrast to that kind of projection, Bogawa\u2019s documentary doesn\u2019t tell viewers what to think. Like the best art, it presents enough information and content to inspire; it\u2019s up to the audience \u2013 viewer, reader, listener \u2013 to fill in the blanks for themselves, filtering the input through their own set of experiences and perspectives.<\/p>\n

Asked what impressions he would like viewers to come away with after seeing his film, Bogawa is reflective. He says that he\u2019d be happy if Have You Got It Yet?<\/i> could \u201cfunction as a trigger for the audience to think about choices in their own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Bogawa, if a work of art stimulates thought or discussion, it has already succeeded on some level. \u201cThat’s what got me making films,\u201d he explains. \u201cBeing in school, seeing a movie, and then going out to a bar or restaurant with friends and then talking, arguing about it for an hour or two.\u201d He remembers thinking, \u201cWow, if music and film can do that, that’s pretty powerful!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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