Overview

• Rock Bottom opened in French cinemas on July 9 after being selected for competition at the Festival du film d’animation d’Annecy last June.
• The film concentrates on Wyatt’s 1972 period of artistic inertia in Mallorca, highlighting the build-up to his musical revival.
• An invented fall relocates Wyatt’s tetraplegia-inducing accident from London to New York and reimagines the plunge as a dive into the Mediterranean.
• Trénor blends painting, video and Dada photomontage with live-action mimicry, reserving full animation for sequences set to the Rock Bottom album.
• Key scenes depict Wyatt’s drug-fuelled collaborations with Daevid Allen and Kevin Ayers and his tumultuous bond with partner Alfie Benge.