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Music by Peter Fletcher and John Payne; Featuring Carl Stone, Peter Fletcher and Dave Shulman as Not Quite Themselves
"Guitar Envy" sequence
This scene was entirely put together from simulated interviews. The three interviewees were told that:
1. John had just been shot.
2. They had to conclude their interviews by declaring "I loved his guitar!"
Everything else was improvised on the spot. Read more

I photographed Can members Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit in Cologne at their old recording studio Schloss Nörvenich, where I later filmed the Atlas sequence. Holger Czukay was photographed in Los Angeles.