White Stripes unveil new documentary

The White Stripes have unveiled a documentary titled The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Speaking at a press conference for its launch, frontman Jack White said that the band were inspired by the "gigantic frontier" alongside their childhood home in Detroit.

White said: "I'm not too big of a reality TV show fan or peek-behind-the-curtains fan, especially in this day and age.

"There's so much of that going on and there's so little mystery about the world of music and creativity."

The film's director Emmett Malloy told Rolling Stone: "I think their biggest fear in life is to be normal. They don't want to play a round of dates at all the typical spots.

"Places like Iqaluit lived up to the expectations. Getting out of the plane there felt like we were on the moon, and certainly meeting the elders there, that's the closet I've ever come to feeling like, 'Wow, these people did live in igloos'."