March 08 2012
Oxygen Nightclub – Moncton, New Brunswick
March 09 2012
Halifax Forum Arena – Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 10 2012
The Delta Ballroom – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
This summer I was approached by Sam Roberts and the band about the possibility of directing a music video for their latest album, COLLIDER. They wanted to do something different, not a predictable performance video, so I had the freedom to do something I thought would be exciting. I spent a week listening to the album while reading the lyrics and riding the subways of New York. I wanted to explore the struggle of urban life through an unlikely character, and one of the ideas I proposed was the portrayal of an urban beekeeper. As a documentary filmmaker, I wanted to show a day in the life of this person. My neighborhood, the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick, was an ideal location. These streets have witnessed an unstoppable gentrification, so I wanted to shoot some of the abandoned buildings before they’re swallowed up. But I had to find an actual beekeeper, someone who deals with the struggle of urban life every day. For weeks I went to hive inspections with New York’s tight-knit beekeeping community and at the last minute, found the perfect lead. The first shoot was on one of New York’s typical 100 degree summer days. Sweating under the sun, we filmed our beekeeper effortlessly tending to her hives on their Brooklyn rooftop. It was starting to come together, but the beekeeper needed to have a dramatic encounter to elevate the story. Sam and I had worked on a video years ago, a gritty urban tale, and he wanted to evoke a similar emotion. We decide to plunge her into an encounter with a dark force. By the end, the video had transformed into a sort of short film. I can thank Sam for pushing this project into the realm of something truly different.
Right after I made my first documentary in the late 90s, I was living in Montreal and met Sam and members of what would eventually become the Sam Roberts band. The first music video I ever did was for them, an underground version of Brother Down, unreleased at the time. I also made a few video installations for shows of theirs in Montreal and Toronto. After moving to Brooklyn in 2000, I focused on documentaries, often about music. I went on to work with artists as diverse as seminal Brooklyn rock band Oneida to hip-hop legend Tragedy Khadafi. This summer, I released MAKE, the documentary that inspired Sufjan Steven’s last album. My current project, WITHOUT ART, is an analysis of the pollution of contemporary art.
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COMMENCE AUJOURD’HUI / STARTS TODAY!
Ne manquez pas Sam Roberts Band à Québec et à Montréal cet février prochain!
Don’t miss the Sam Roberts Band this February in Quebec City and Montreal!
Quebec City – http://bit.ly/vD7zxa
Thursday, Feb 9 / Jeudi 9 février
Le Cercle
Doors 7:00 pm, Show 8:00 pm
Ages 18+ GA
Montreal – http://bit.ly/sxPN9I
Friday, Feb 10 / Vendredi 10 février
Métropolis
Doors 6:30 pm, Show 8:00 pm
All Ages, GA
SAM ROBERTS BAND: iTUNES LIVE FROM MONTREAL is now available at the iTunes store! Back in May, on the release of COLLIDER, we performed a show at the iTunes Store in Montreal on a Friday the 13th. It was a great show, and our friends at iTunes have made it available for download for $7.99, check it out!
In conjunction with the Collider Tour, Collider is on sale at iTunes for $7.99, and all the other albums are specially priced at $5.99.
From the forthcoming video for Without A Map
Our second single from Collider is “Without A Map” and it’s out now!! Our friend and filmmaker Malcolm Hearn is putting the finishing touches on a video which you can expect to see in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned…
If you want to hear music on the radio that matters to YOU, lend your voice by calling or writing in your requests to your local station… Follow these links to make your mark on radio in your town!!!
http://www.samrobertsband.com/radio-request/
Thanks from the SRB.
SRB Films presents it’s second feature film. Directed, produced, and filmed by our lighting designer Ian MacDonald (aka Imac). Welcome to the dark underbelly of the Collider tour.
If you missed the re-airing of our Massey Hall show on CBC Radio 2, follow this link
