I am Tim’ Document Trailer Options Chris Martin, David Guetta

The existence and occasions of cherished Swedish DJ/manufacturer Avicii are celebrated within the first legitimate trailer for the impending Netflix document chronicling his existence, Avicii – I’m Tim. The just about two-minute preview of the movie due out globally on Dec. 31 opens with a picture of Avicii (born Tim Bergling) posted up in the back of his decks in entrance of a large competition crowd as towering pyro flames fill the body and the target market shouts “AVICII! AVICII!”

That includes voiceover narration recorded with the past due international celebrity prior to he died in 2018 at age 28 by means of suicide, the trailer flips thru photographs of Avicii in his formative years, touchdown on a snap of a teenage Tim strumming an acoustic guitar as he explains, “I’ve all the time beloved song. I knew that no matter I sought after to do later in existence, I sought after to do one thing inventive.”

He describes operating on his song at house, continuously sending his tracks out within the hope that somebody would understand. “In this kind of small time, he utterly killed it,” says fellow international DJ celebrity David Guetta. The point of interest then shifts to a sequence of pics and video clips of Avicii within the studio with stars together with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Sublime’s Nile Rodgers and others, as Martin remembers that it was once Avicii’s signature 2011 hit “Ranges” that offered him to Bergling’s song.

“I had that feeling that I am getting after I actually love one thing,” Martin says concerning the inescapably catchy, Grammy-nominated area track that crowned the charts within the DJ’s local Sweden and was his signature hit. The trailer additionally hits on one of the audacious, and a hit, possibilities Avicii took in his existence when he were given booed after debuting the genre-busting Aloe Blacc collab “Wake Me Up” on the Extremely Song Pageant in 2013 with a reside band — together with a banjo and two guitars. The track would move directly to be his largest hit, and his simplest most sensible 10 hit at the Billboard Scorching 100, the place it reached No. 4 in October 2013 on its approach to greater than 3 billion streams.

On the time, Avicii was once “actually damaged about it,” in keeping with the document, with a voiceover noting that the consistent jet-setting traveling was once “actually taking a toll” on Bergling. “I used to be operating after some thought of happiness that wasn’t my very own,” Avicii says. “I didn’t like being a personality.”

Avicii struggled as the road between performer and personality were given blurred, and in a poignant second on the finish of the sneak preview, the interviewer wonders what his resolution could be if somebody requested “What’s your tale? Who’re you?”

Haltingly, Bergling confirms, “I’m… Tim.”

The document directed by means of Henrik Burman premiere on the Tribeca Movie Pageant previous this 12 months additionally options interviews with Avicii’s oldsters, pals, colleagues and fellow artists. In conjunction with the documentary, Netflix will circulation Avicii’s ultimate efficiency at Ushuaïa Ibiza in August of 2016, his ultimate reside set prior to he stopped traveling at 26.

Watch the trailer beneath.