Strange Powers – Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields

Shot over a period of 10 years, “Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields” explores songwriter Stephin Merritt’s friendship with his longtime bandmate and manager Claudia Gonson. Through his recording and songwriting process, the film traces a 20-year career that has yielded one of the most engaging bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook. An intimate documentary portrait of Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields.