Director Patrick Kendall takes us in depth on his recent video "Still Here" for The Lapdancers, which is a side project of Sugarcult guitarist Marko 72:
The song is about the band's friend who drank himself into the ground and died. The bar scenes were
shot at Santa Barbara watering hole Don's Cocktails. If there are any
sketchy characters in Santa Barbara, you would see them there. One of the old guys in the video actually lives in an old, beat-up RV
behind the bar. He sits outside all day with his crazy little dog and
always has a cold Bud in his hand. Another old guy, the guy in the
suit (see photo), we got from a casting call we put out at a local retirement home promising
free drinks. Actually, we
still don't know for sure if he was from that retirement home or just
an old guy in fancy clothes who happened to show up off the streets. Emile, the lead singer, insisted on doing only real
Bourbon shots. Needless to say, he was hammered by the end of the shoot.
Pretty easy shoot, split between two half days. We tracked the song off an iPod with clicks beats. It was shot on HD — no film — even though it looks like a Bolex camera was involved. We used this new type of HD camera that shoot onto Flash cards and stores everything digitally.
Watch "Still Here" at Ifilm -- credits: Patrick Kendall, director | Jelly Jam, production co | Free Agency Recordings, record label
