Eva Aridjis – the filmmaker behind the documentary about the late Goodbye Horses singer – has launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete the project.
Dark Entries Records is set to release a Q Lazzarus reissue this year along with a documentary, made by director and writer Eva Aridjis, about the mysterious New York artist. “We’ve been working on a Q Lazzarus reissue since we started the label 15 years ago,” the San Francisco label wrote, “and it will finally see the light of day this year”.
we’ve been working on a Q Lazzarus reissue since we started the label 15 years ago and it will finally see the light of day this year in conjunction with an amazing documentary on Q’s life by @EvaAridjis 🐎💜 Please help fund this film if you can https://t.co/Zp13fpeqmn pic.twitter.com/HQraq4Z3DM
— Dark Entries Records (@darkentriesrecs) January 9, 2024
Real name Diane Luckey, Q Lazzarus was known for her track Goodbye Horses, which was famously used in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. The film director – who met Luckey when she was working as a taxi driver in New York – also used her music in three of his other features. The musician disappeared from the public eye in the 90s and it remained a mystery what had happened to her for years until it was revealed that she had been working as bus driver on Staten Island. She passed away in 2022, aged 61.
In 2019, Aridjis met Q Lazzarus: “she was driving for a car service app, and I coincidentally was her passenger,” the director of Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus shared on the project’s Kickstarter page.
“I was a big fan of her work and had often wondered what had happened to her, and as soon as I got into her car I suspected it could be her,” Aridjis continues. “She had completely buried Q Lazzarus, but when she met me she decided it was time to revisit her past and music, and become Q again. We both believed our meeting to be fated.”
Aridjis goes on to detail the documentary she has been working on for over four years, which includes 20 unreleased Q Lazzarus tracks. “While the film is mostly a biography of Q told through her own words and music,” she adds, “it also features interviews with twelve of her family members, friends and collaborators in the US and the UK. It charts her creative journey and work, and reveals the reasons behind her long, mysterious disappearance.”
For the documentary to be finished, Aridjis explains that there are some final costs to cover to complete the film – such as paying for music rights including the use of Goodbye Horses, post-production and archival rights. Find out more and support the film’s completion here.
