Berlin Film Festival: Joan Baez Reflects On Amazing Career, Bob Dylan, Reveals Anxieties And Multiple Personalities In ‘I Am A Noise’
deadline.comFrom the time Joan Baez gave her first performances as a teenager in the late 1950s, she possessed a remarkable soprano voice with distinctive vibrato that paired magically with acoustic guitar.
Baez also displayed an exceptional stage presence — confident, natural and serene. But as the documentary Joan Baez I Am a Noise reveals, that appearance of almost divine tranquility was deceiving. “Before a concert the stage fright was beyond what it should have been.
It was terrible,” Baez tells Deadline. “There would be times when I would have a complete panic attack before the show and I would ask somebody, ‘Just shove me out there.’ And once I got out there I could do it and, for the most part, enjoy myself… But yeah, it was tumultuous.
It was up and down.” The film directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O’Boyle makes its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, in the Panorama Documentary section.
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