Suburbia may have pushed everyone a bit further apart — sequestering families in their raised ranches on their quarter-acres behind picket fences — and computers and other technology have probably exacerbated that separation, allowing us to virtually mingle and telecommute and order just about anything to be brought to your door. But, the suburban subdivision depicted in this Wintersleep video directed by Sean Wainsteim is haunted by a group of kids — are they ghosts? — who defy trends by playing together in the dead of night and siplaying the kind of interconnectedness that you could argue is on the wane in our post-modern times. Actually, if I was in an intellectual mood I would also say that this neighborhood is haunted by the ghost of Jane Jacobs and then go into a lengthy tangent on urban planning. But, this is essentially a music video blog and my philosophical musings on the correlation between the state of our cities and our very souls is about as out of place as a shopping mall in NYC's Herald Square. --> watch "Weighty Ghost" (director's cut)
Wintersleep "Weighty Ghost" (Labwork)
Sean Wainsteim, director | John Nadalin , producer | Next Element Ent./Wainsteim Films , production co | Brendan Steacy , DP | Jordan Krug, editor
