Death Cab For Cutie's latest CD Plans gets complex with the release of a series of videos under the name Directions. This anthology will collect 12 short films/music videos by 12 different filmmakers inspired by the 11 songs from Plans, plus one bonus cut. Songs that already have videos — "Soul Meets Body" and the next single, "Crooked Teeth" — will be represented by new videos by different directors.
The line-up for Directions is as follows:
- "Marching Bands Of Manhattan" - P.R. Brown, director
- "Soul Meets Body" - Cat Solen, director
- "Summer Skin" - Lightborne, director
- "Different Names For The Same Thing" - Autumn de Wilde, director
- "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" - Monkmus, director
- "Your Heart Is An Empty Room" - Jeffrey Brown, director; Eliza Kinkz, animator
- "Someday You Will Be Loved" - Ace Norton, director
- "Crooked Teeth" - Rob Schrab, diretcor
- "What Sarah Said" - Laurent Briet, director
- "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" - Chris Grismer, director
- "Stable Song" - Aaron Stewart-Ahn, director
- "Talking Like Turnstiles" (bonus track) - Lance Bangs, director
Most of the names on the list will be familiar to music video fans and Video Static readers, but there are a few newcomers. Autumn de Wilde is a photographer who has often worked with DCFC (and has directed videos for Spoon and the late Elliott Smith), Rob Schrab is the creator of the legendarily never aired Jack Black TV show pilot Heat Vision and Jack and Jeffrey Brown is a graphic novelist.
“Each interpretation is phenomenal and our hats go off to everyone involved. It’s our hope that this project serves as a model to both labels and bands as a way to grant the directors the type and amount of freedom we’ve enjoyed in the creation of the music itself.” - Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie
The videos are slated to be unveiled one by one on one on the band's website deathcabforcutie.com in early January. Directions is the brainchild of otaku-house, a production company run by DCFC bassist Nick Harmer and director Aaron Stewart-Ahn.
