(Throw On The) Hazard Lights

This a music video for the song “Throw On The (Hazard Lights)” by The Dirty Projectors. This song can be found on the album Slaves Graves’ and Ballads which came out in 2004 on Western Vinyl. This is what they have to say:

Dave Longstreth is the man behind, or per­haps in front of, the music called Dirty Projectors. Longstreth wrote half of Slaves’ Graves and Ballads, the follow-up to last year’s critically-acclaimed debut, The Glad Fact, for a ten-piece cham­ber group called The Orchestral Society for the Preservation of the Orchestra. This first half, Slaves’ Graves, was recorded in a church in New Haven, CT. The Ballads were recorded with guru and quak­ing soul­man Adam Forkner of Yume Bitsu at Dub Narcotic Studios, in Olympia, WA. Witness Longstreth use GM tech­nol­ogy to restore maize to its orig­i­nal, feral genetic makeup, before the advent of domes­ti­ca­tion: this is clas­si­cal and pop music’s bodies-entwined, souls-commingled wed­ding! Their child doesn’t have one white eye and one Asian one; rather, he sees differently.

I shot most of the footage on a HP Photosmart L1822A dig­i­tal cam­era while on tour with The Righteous and Harmonious Fists. There’s not a whole lot of influ­ence from the mag­nif­i­cent films James Sumner made for the Dirty Projectors, but I really love a lot about this song and wanted to com­bine some videos that I shot in San Francisco and on the road trav­el­ing up the west coast. I man­aged to get some really long shots on the L1822A — the SF street shot was 20min — and some of them came out really great. Some also came out pretty weird — did you see the face??? Finally, this is the first time I’ve ever used iMovie to edit videos and I’m still fig­ur­ing out some tricks but I hope you like it!