Canadian musician Leslie Feist is known for her collaborations with bands like Kings of Convenience and Broken Social Scene, but it is as a solo artist that the former rapper turned songstress has found fame. When three years ago her third album ‘The Reminder’ sold over a million copies, Peaches’ former flatmate suddenly found herself everywhere; from Sesame Street to iPod adverts.

Now a documentary entitled ‘Look at What the Light Did Now’ illuminates the creative process behind the album. Through flickering Super-8 footage shot while recording ‘The Reminder’ in a crumbling French mansion and her electric live performances the film is a beautiful and poetic insight into Feist’s artistic world.

But it is her partnerships with the people she calls her ‘amplifiers’ that pull her vision into reality – from shadow puppeteers to a firework conducting video director, as well as her many musical collaborators. Feist says: “I would feel a little bit like the peacock. Ultimately the peacock’s just this scrawny bird but there’s this beautiful fan around it, and it distracts from the scrawny bird and is this beautiful thing that’s bigger than it.”  The result is a creative mosaic that sings sweetly of artistic truth.

‘Look at What the Light Did Now’ is at the ICA 3 December 2010 listentofeist

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