The Nomi Song

He looked like an alien, and sang like a diva from another world. Nobody knew exactly where Klaus Nomi was coming from when he entered the New Wave underground scene in the early 1980's. In fact, he came from Germany, and while he borrowed his glam image from his collaborator and fellow freak David Bowie, he was above all else an original performer who not only sang differently, but simply was different from anyone who had come before. A story about the invention of an image beyond fashion, a pose that cannot be recreated, because it belonged only to one who explored boundaries far beyond the conventions of his time. Horn's film shows a radical man who died in his prime, who wore a mask but was willing to risk all for the sake of a good show.