Our guest for episode 21 is the film director Steve Hanft.

Steve made his name making music videos for artists such as Beck, which led him to eventually directing the 1998 Elliott Smith documentary Strange Parallel (although calling it a documentary is perhaps doing it a disservice). It's part music performance, part interview but mostly a surreal dream involving Elliott - if you haven't seen the film, there's a link lower down.

In this episode, we cover how that film came about, how it ended up like it did - with Elliott being implored to buy a robot hand to improve his guitar playing - and what he thought of the documentary after it came out. We do find time to discuss Steve's favourite song too!

A special thank you to Ross Harris for making this interview possible.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

• Strange Parallel (full length film on Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/74984466

• Condor Ave on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Tz0TCqxlpMDDMQWMycyEF?si=YgNXrK6CTNylUBMsEgUrJg

• Roman Candle on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0vgbFgcYqm2B0csVXvo8d5?si=o_y9Q5g6T0y7tVlKynq8EA

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley.

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