26/02/2025
Tom Waits performs and reads poetry in new documentary 'The Last Ride'. Created by Italian public television channel RAI3, it's the final episode in the eight-part series "The Human Factor", an immersive journey among the "last" on earth: U.S. citizens that experience homelessness who are victims of a system without safety nets and forced to live in extremely marginalised conditions. In 'The Last Ride', their stories are accompanied by his unmistakable voice. With performances on acoustic guitar and piano as well as reading from his poem 'Seeds On Hard Ground', Waits provides a throughline to the landscape of faces and stories portrayed in the documentary.
In the United States, the richest country in the world, hundreds of thousands of people experience extreme marginalization as they struggle to survive without a home. With no safety net and often criminalized simply for existing, they are forced to live on the streets while many states impose puniti...
