ABOUT:
This project came about more as a way for us to express our love for our friends in the music scene we inhabit than it was about any particular group, or person. We originally wanted to create a mockumentary with a “real” storyline however that idea ended up being too ambitious for the three of us (Phoenix, Jerome, Mila). Instead we decided it made more sense to record the shows our group of friends threw together across the semester and the ones we were a part of or witnessed in the area. This footage became the basis for our documentary.
There is very little structure in the documentary itself, aside from an overlaid interview with our dear friend, Jonathan White, who is the reason many of us know each other. We thought the lack of storyline and spontaneous editing more accurately expressed our shared perspectives and the underlying ethos of improv, being something that creates itself in the moment. Free improvisation is often about removing yourself from your previous ideas about what narrative and structure means to you and existing in a bunch of short, shared moments with others. The goal of the documentary was to convey that experience and the relationships formed through it.
We wanted essentially to capture what was happening between us and our friends during this very brief moment. Nothing more, nothing less. We had no qualms about blatantly putting our own perspective on the piece and viewing others subjectively. We want the viewer to be able to experience this music scene in the same way we did: fragmented, fun, loud chaos.
THANK YOU TO: Jon, Kadin, Justice, Nate, Cam, Riri, Drew, Adam Arritola, Paul (collapsing), Manny (structure affliction), Troy, Arlo, Sam, Marie, Bonnie Kane, Cold Spring Hollow, Everyone In The World, Friendship Itself, Henry Cow