Rock Prophecies World Premiere At AFI Dallas Film Festival

Robert Knight (photo by Jarrod Vrazel : zrock.com)

Rock Prophecies, a documentary film that puts legendary rock photographer Robert Knight in front of the lens, made its world premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 27-28, 2009. A film by John Chester and produced by Tim Kaiser, Rock Prophecies features interviews and performances from Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, Def Leppard, Slash, Carlos Santana, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, and Steve Vai, among others. In conjunction with the world premiere, Knight signed copies of his book Rock Gods: Forty Years of Rock Photography at Borders Books in Dallas.

The film debuted to rave reviews and fans gave Knight a Texas-sized rock star welcome and standing ovation. Kaiser has proclaimed Knight to be the the Forrest Gump of Rock n Roll for his ability to capture history in the making, namely the last photo ever taken of Stevie Ray Vaughan and some of the earliest of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. A lot of people take great pictures, says Kaiser, but Robert just captures history again and again.

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The film tells the story of Robert M. Knight, a rock photographer born and raised in Honolulu, who holds the distinction of being one of the first photographers to capture Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, and the last to photograph Stevie Ray Vaughan. Over the course of the film, Robert revisits the friends and idols of his past, such as Jeff Beck, Slash, Carlos Santana and Steve Vai, while helping to kick-start the careers of the Australian band Sick Puppies and teenaged music virtuoso Tyler Dow Bryant. Fiercely protective of his ever-expanding photo archive, the photographer struggles with his mother’s costly around-the-clock care, and debates whether to sell the 200,000+ photos that mean so much to him.

The Rock Prophecies screening tour continues April 3 in Sonoma, CA at House of Docs at Sonoma County Women’s Club.