DAVE NAVARRO On His Mourning Son Documentary – "There’s Never Going To Be A Day That There’s Closure"

Jane’s Addiction guitarist and Ink Master host Dave Navarro recently spoke with Kerr Lordygan of Rotten Tomatoes, detailing his five favourite films. He also discussed his own documentary, Mourning Son, which focuses on the 1983 murder of his mother Constance; Navarro was just 15 years old at the time, an excerpt follows:

“Basically, me and my partner, Todd (Newman), we worked on it every step of the way. This film couldn’t be more DIY independent filmmaking because we just basically made it ourselves. We were talking about what it would be like to put a documentary together, because we’re both such huge fans of film. And we just got in the car one day with a video camera and went and made one. That was literally how it happened. We funded and shot everything ourselves, did audio ourselves, did the film ourselves, booked everything ourselves, found everybody ourselves, did the interviews… Everything down the line was all by ourselves until we finally hired on an editor who helped us make sense of everything we had, but even then — we’re in the editing room the entire time. It’s certainly — a story of this nature, which is — it goes over my mom’s murder and dealing…”

Navarro continues, “I think one of the things we realized as we were going is that it had the potential to help trauma survivors and victims of crime in a way that no other film has. And in terms of pointing out that there’s no right way to do this, and it’s probably never, ever going to be totally okay. You’re just going to have to get better, and things are tough. I think it speaks on a real level to people who have been through something like that. And buzz words like ‘closure’ you got to throw that out the window right away, because there’s never going to be a day that there’s closure. I think what happens is that, in today’s ‘touchy-feely’ climate, people end up feeling bad because they don’t feel closure, and then they feel worse.”

To read the interview in it’s entirety, click here. Watch the trailer for Mourning Son – available now on VOD, Cable On-Demand, and iTunes – below: