Jeff Buckley: new hypotheses on death in a documentary

How did Jeff Buckley die? After twenty -eight years after the death of the US singer -songwriter, his premature death, which took place in 1997 when Buckley was only 30 years old, continues to be surrounded by a dense veil of mystery. The artist drowned in the Wolf River Harbor, a tributary of Mississippi, in Memphis, on May 29, 1997. His body was found only five days later, and the autopsy did not reveal traces of drugs or alcohol, confirming accidental drowning. Now new hypotheses are made on the tragic death of Buckley. Merit of a documentary dedicated to the artist: it is titled “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” and will arrive in US cinemas this Friday, August 8, before landing by the end of the year on Hbo.

The docu-film was created by Amy Berg, an American director who in 2015 directed “Janis: Little Girl Blue”, dedicated to the Janis Joplin icon and presented at the Venice Film Festival of that year. In creating the documentary, the director has made himself in search of unpublished videos taken from the Archives of Buckley and intimate reports of his mother Mary Guiber and people close to the artist, such as the former bandmates of Band Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, with the aim of “shedding light on one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of modern music”.

In an interview granted to Forbes in the US on the eve of the debut of the film in American cinemas, the director also spoke of the hypotheses related to death. Already after the discovery of Buckley’s body, the mother stressed strongly how the death of the singer -songwriter was not “mysterious” or “linked to drugs, alcohol or suicide”. Now Berg comments:

The other thing I wanted to underline in the film and in some scenes is the impulsiveness of his personality and his behavior, something I had not understood until I analyzed his life. He made his death much more understandable for me.

On what happened that tragic May 29, 1997, the director of “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” has a very specific idea, carried out in the same documentary-film:

It was so impulsive that obviously the water seemed so beautiful and it was not thought of the underground current or the dangerous aspects of diving into the Wolf river.

Here is the trailer of the Docu-Film:

It is not known, at the moment, if “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” will also arrive in European and Italian cinemas.