There's a timeless feel to Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles as he ambles through New Jersey to the banks of the Hudson. The lens distorts and pulls you a bit off-center and day turns to night turns to day. There's also a fantastic article by Amos Barshard at Grantland about the video and the 28 hour shoot that produced it.
"This being indie rock in 2012, the shoot is a stripped-down affair. There's a six-man crew and an inexpensive concept: Stickles stomping through his native Jersey, alternately backed by his band and confronted with human roadblocks, making his way toward his adopted semi-home of New York City. The theme: change.
The deceptively ambitious plan is to shoot Stickles and the band at the same spots at sunrise and dawn and elsewhere in the day, and to edit these moments into a thematically consistent, but trippy, vision. Hence the 24-hour shoot. And as the director, a former Harvard physics major named Isaac Ravishankara, put it in the treatment: 'I really think the physical and mental nature of this challenge will add to the tone of the piece.'
watch --> "In A Big City"
Titus Andronicus
"In A Big City" (XL)
Isaac Ravishankara, director | Sydney Buchan, producer | Doomsday, production co | Kevin Hayden, DP | Danielle Hinde, exec. producer | Jill Kaplan, commissioner
