| Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan | |
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| Directed by | Alma Har'el |
| Produced by | Alma Har'el Christopher Leggett Raphael Marmor |
| Starring | Bob Dylan |
| Cinematography | Lol Crawley |
| Edited by | Alma Har'el |
| Music by | Bob Dylan |
| Distributed by | Veeps, Apple TV+ |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shadow Kingdom is a 2021 concert film featuring American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Directed by Israeli-American filmmaker Alma Har'el, it was shot on a soundstage in Santa Monica, California, over seven days in 2021 while Dylan was sidelined from his Never Ending Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The film features Dylan and a group of masked musicians performing 13 songs from the first half of Dylan's career in an intimate club-like setting.[2][3][4]
Shadow Kingdom premiered via the livestream platform Veeps.com with little information about its contents having been revealed in pre-release publicity.[5] Some viewers expected the event to be a live concert and were surprised when it turned out to be a stylized black-and-white art film featuring "pre-recorded set pieces" instead.[6] Shadow Kingdom nonetheless earned rave reviews from critics, many of whom praised Dylan's creative re-arrangements of his early songs as well as Har'el's imaginative staging of the performances.[7]
A soundtrack album, Shadow Kingdom, was released on June 2, 2023,[8] and the full-length film was released four days later as a rental and digital download.[9]
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