Death Cab For Cutie Video Filmed in Cincy
If you drove past Ziegler Park in Over-the-Rhine this past Saturday you likely did a double take. The park was filled with beat-up filing cabinets, old desks, cubicles and a gaggle of freezing 10-year-old kids dressed in dowdy business attire.What the hell was going on?
Lightborne Studios, located in OTR, was filming a music video for the Death Cab For Cutie song "Summer Skin," which is featured on the band's amazing new CD.
"Summer Skin" is a metaphor for lost childhood and director Kyle Shoup wanted to create an outdoor office full of children going through the motions of their dead-end 9-to-5 jobs. "I wanted them to seem as if they had given up on childhood and resigned to a life of corporate servitude," says Shoup, a Lightborne designer/animator and a guitarist in the band The Defrost Star.
The children were filmed meeting in a "boardroom" at the bottom of an empty swimming pool and in the grassy "office." Another scene was filmed with the kids meeting at a water cooler positioned next to swings and slides.
It was a surreal scene and fun to watch.
The video will appear on an upcoming Death Cab For Cutie DVD or will be available for iTunes download.
1 Comments:
Good for Lightborne! They're a great asset for the city, and the Enq and TV news should give them more press. They're one of the best-kept secrets of the city.
But OTR still sucks.
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