AUSTRALIAN musician Nick Cave is hoping a 3-D documentary will help answer questions about his son’s death rather than speaking to crowds of strangers as he promotes his new album, the film’s director Andrew Dominik said Tuesday.

    Cave’s son Arthur, 15, died after falling from a cliff in July last year. It happened as his father was recording “Skeleton Tree.”

    “There was no way for him to discuss the record without talking about the context in which the record was made which was the death of his son,” Dominik told Reuters at the Venice film festival.

    “It’s not that he doesn’t want to talk about what happened with Arthur, but I think he just didn’t want to do it with a whole lot of strangers ... so his solution was to make a film, which would give him a safer space.”

    The resulting documentary, “One More Time With Feeling,” was screened at the festival in the out-of-competition section.

    The director is best known for feature films such as drama “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”

    The Venice film festival runs until Sept. 10.

    (SD-Agencies)