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Official video for “RISE SUN” by The Infamous Stringdusters
Directed by Laura Goldhamer
Cinematography by Michelle Christiance
Produced by Spiral Bound Studios
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Thurs., July 11 / 4848 Festival / Snowshoe, WV
Fri., July 12 / Lovin' Cup Bistro & Brews / Rochester, NY
Thurs., July 18 / Terrapin Crossroads / San Rafael, CA
Fri., July 19 / Redwood Ramble / Navarro, CA
Sat. July 20-21 / Northwest String Summit / North Plains
Fri., Jul. 26 / The Peach Music Festival / Scranton, PA
Sat., Aug 10 / Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival / Alta, WY
Thurs., Aug 15 / The Rustic / Dallas, TX
Fri., Aug 16-17 / Mohawk Austin / Austin, TX
Sat., Sept 21-22 / Borderland Music + Arts Festival / East Aurora, NY
Sat., Oct 19 / The Wander Down Music Festival / Makanda, IL
Thurs., Dec 12-16 / Strings & Sol / Puerto Morelos, MEX
The Infamous Stringdusters are Andy Hall (dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle) and Travis Book (upright bass).
Words by Denver artist and 'Rise Sun' video director Laura Goldhamer.
If this motion-picture music video had a storybook moral, it would encourage us to carry forward hope, beyond cerebral logic, even without knowing where the heck we will end up. As humanity contemplates questions of its own fate on this planet as a species (deeply mired in destructive modern industry), amidst it all, we call for hope in a new day. This song begs a huge but hopeful question: “Can we live together without pain?”
As filmmakers, we’ve been affectionately referring to this video piece as “A Portrait of America”, as it traces our various U.S. travels from east coast to the west, through the south & into the southwest. Using photographic approaches we call “photo-flow” & “travel-lapse”, this visual texture embodies the exciting yet often frenetically fast pace of contemporary society. Moreover, the upbeat driving song “Rise Sun” seems to yearn for reconciliation & harmony in our modern complicated time, as violent divisions exist not only between peoples, but between mass cultural human behaviors & the natural world. One timeless symbol of the manufactured industrial (though perhaps too frequently affiliated with bluegrass music) is the train. This coexistence & conflict of industry with wilderness is succinctly contained within a single shot in this video, as a herd of antelope runs behind a line of train cars.
In preparation to launch off to the mountains of Jamestown, CO for one of our movie-making expeditions, we sought out our friend Paul DeHaven’s art to use in conjunction with our own colorful yarn-based animations (all shot outdoors in February!)… Coincidentally, one of the pieces he sent with us very much resembled a sunrise! This woven art piece, to us depicting dawn, became a bit of an unexpected mascot for the song, a symbol of hope in a new day & of carrying this hope through the moments & along sidewalks of our every day lives. Some of this concept was filmed on sidewalks of in both industrial and residential areas of our local Baker neighborhood in Denver. We filmed some segments near train tracks there and were politely asked to leave the area by railroad officials. Other segments were filmed in Jamestown, CO at a yurt, labyrinth, & ravine with abandoned old cars. Other locations include passenger and back seats on trips to and from Taos, NM, Carbondale & Buena Vista, CO, while other moments were captured in such states as Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, & North Carolina.
When on a journey, it is common to worry that we are not going the right way. However some problems can be solved simply by proceeding on the path. Much like walking many circuits of a labyrinth (in which there is actually no wrong turn, but instead a single route), it may feel like you are not getting any closer to where you are trying to go, or even as if you are moving further & further away from your ultimate goals. However, at a certain point, we can trust that every step is indeed one step closer, & when we let go of worry as to whether or not we will ever get there, suddenly we find ourselves at the center. Without knowing each and every step of where this music video would take us, great meaning & surprises aligned as we made our way towards its completion.
The video also includes one time-lapse shot of The Super Blood Wolf Moon on Jan 21st, 2019, freshly emerged with new light from total eclipse. As it turns out, cover artwork for “Rise Sun” also employed a photo of a super moon, a long-exposure which was reworked to look like the light of the sun on the album’s cover.
~ Laura Goldhamer
4 окт 2024
