Ike & Tina Turner

Los Angeles
1975

This was the first session I filmed. Ike and Tina were the most successful crossover R&B act at the time and I had always loved their music. Ike is a musical genius and Tina is a powerhouse. My idea was that it would be amazing to cut a short piece of film that captured the emotional depth of the communication and the spontaneous performances that had become a characteristic of the session’s process. Once I developed the dailies and looked at the footage and realized that I could capture the intensity and authenticity of the session, I knew exactly what I was going do from then on.