Remember when Spike Jonze was in town shooting a super-secret video project for Arcade Fire? Super-secret no more: The fruits of that collaboration are now all over the web.
Specifically, it’s a music video for the title track off of Arcade Fire’s last album, The Suburbs. The video was shot around town and, as the Austin Film Society helpfully points out, in part on the tarmac at Austin Studios. It’s unclear if there’s a longer cut in the works – rumor was Jonze was planning a thirty-minute short film.
This article appears in November 19 • 2010.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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