I Hate Myself And I Want To DiE

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“Beautifully captured… this is the closest any document has yet come to capturing how it all happened, which is to say how the media event that was Nirvana unfolded before the public:” -Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate (Screen Slate’s Best Movies of 2023)

“An almost authorless yet sincere tribute to the late ‘90s band.” -Jeremy Polacek, Hyperallergic

The biographical story of Nirvana told through the media detritus left in Kurt Cobain’s wake, I Hate Myself and I Want to Die tracks the bemused trio as they grapple with the blitzkrieg of global superstardom.

Collating ephemera to tell a linear narrative through the outside gaze of home video, lost practice footage, local news broadcasts, stoned TV interviews, insensitive true-crime shows, crushing live performances and more, the collected lenses reflect the lovers and leechers circling the bizarre and spectacular voyage of the unlikeliest band in the world.

Following early 2010s screenings at Spectacle Theater and The Museum of Arts and Design, IHMAIWTD was refined over the ensuing years as freshly exhumed archival materials became available. In November 2023, a new version premiered at Spectacle Theater to sold out audiences and has since been stealthy making its way across the country.