In 2002, Wim Wenders made his personal contribution to a major project produced by Martin Scorsese with the film The Soul of a Man, a poetic homage to the music that shaped his life. The project was a collection of seven films exploring the essence of the blues. Wenders focused on the life stories of three blues musicians, Skip James, J. B. Lenoir and Blind Willie Johnson, and commissioned contemporary musicians such as Lou Reed, Nick Cave and Cassandra Wilson to reinterpret their songs. "These songs meant the world to me," says Wenders. 'I felt there was more truth in them than in any book or film about America that I had read or seen. I tried to convey what touched me so deeply about these songs and these three unique voices of the blues in the form of a story, rather than in a 'documentary' way."

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