Music documentary Mystify Michael Hutchence as part of Ausmusic month.

This is a feature-length theatrical documentary written and directed by Richard Lowenstein, director of many of both INXS and Michael’s hit music videos and the 1986 feature film, Dogs in Space, in which Hutchence played the lead.

Mystify is a journey into the heart and soul of internationally renowned INXS front-man Michael Hutchence, and delivers an intimate narrative portrait, imbued with authenticity, warmth and humour. Michael came to epitomise the very definition of leather-clad sexually magnetic rock front-man, but underneath it all he was a poetic, multifaceted and intensely sensitive man who struggled with the idea of success and the creative limits of pop.

Extraordinary archive footage, personal home movies and intimate insights from Michael’s friends, lovers, band members, family, collaborators and Hutchence himself guide us through his trajectory from unconventional fractured childhood to a charismatic, turbulent and ultimately tragic public stardom.

The score for Mystify Michael Hutchence was composed by Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) and features some of the most iconic INXS songs and rare tracks from Michael’s collaboration with Ollie Olsen in Max Q.

Production Credits: A Passion Pictures and Ghost Pictures production, presented by ABC, Screen Australia and BBC in association with Baird Films and Film Victoria. Director: Richard Lowenstein; Producers Maya Gnyp, John Battsek, Sue Murray, Mark Fennessy, Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn and Andrew de Groot; ABC Executive Producer Miranda Culley; ABC Manager of Arts, Richard Buckham.

Sunday 24 November at 8.40pm on ABC.

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