How a Storage Unit Transformed the Documentary ‘Joan Baez I Am a Noise’

TheWrap magazine: “I had no idea what was in there,” Baez says of giving her directors the key to a unit that contained tapes of her therapy sessions

Joan Baez I Am a Noise
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We know about Joan Baez’s years as the queen of folk music, a maker of pop hits and a tireless campaigner for causes — but until the documentary “Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” most people didn’t know about her recurring panic attacks or her history of childhood abuse. The film, which was directed by Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle and Karen O’Connor, began as a chronicle of the music icon’s final tour and ended up being far more personal and intimate than that, with the help of a seemingly bottomless storage unit owned by Baez.

O’Connor and Baez talked to TheWrap about the film.

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