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- Music video for "Tell Me You Love Me" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Sufjan Stevens is proud to present The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is an incidental 12.7 miles of urban roadway built over the course of several decades (1939-1964), spear-headed by the master architect Robert Moses to accommodate for the increase of commercial and commuter traffic in New York City's outer boroughs. The roadway was a painstaking piecemeal project, poorly planned, badly built, and relentlessly encumbered by the obvious obstacles of the era: red tape, neighborhood protests, World War II, and a congested borough whose sequestering layout proved ill-fitting for the automobile. The resulting expressway-a pockmarked, serpentine, congested BQE-has become one of Brooklyn's most notable icons of urban blight. And, for Sufjan Stevens, an object of unmitigated inspiration. The official album release of The BQE follows nearly two years after its original performance at BAM, providing the songwriter (and his various collaborators) ample time to wrestle out all the thematic incarnations of the project, and to attempt an appropriation of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work"). The resulting album might be best described as a grand creative franchise-incorporating movie, symphony, comic book, dissertation, photography, graphic design, and a 3-D Viewmaster® reel-in which a songwriter's interrogation of one of New York's ugliest landmarks expands athletically to forums and formulas outside of the song itself. In fact, the BQE is everything but a song. First and foremost, The BQE is a self-made home-movie documentation, exhibiting how all the architectural colors of Brooklyn and Queens are fabulously intersected by this ramshackle artery of highway traffic. Shot renegade style on do-it-yourself film cameras, the animated footage of grid-lock crisscrossing the brick and mortar of Brooklyn flickers and cascades Koyaanisqatsi-style on three simultaneous screens. The 16mm cinematography (heroically shot by Reuben Kleiner on a 1960s Bolex) utilizes time-lapse photography, in-camera editing, slow motion, and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into a splendor of graphic compositions. The BQE is also accompanied by an idiosyncratic musical soundtrack (composed by Stevens for band and chamber orchestra), evoking a romanticized musical choreography of perpetual motion vs. gridlock. Borrowing variously from Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives, and Autechre (to name a few), the music showcases skittish woodwinds wrestling out impressionist articulation (in 7/8) and imperial brass anthems evoking various incarnations of the music of the automobile. Further Information: The BQE is available as a double-disc format (CD/DVD), which includes the original 16mm/8mm film (in widescreen "triptych" display), the original motion picture soundtrack, a 40-page booklet (with extensive liner notes and photographs), and the stereoscopic image reel
- The stories of three cancer patients and how they are making their recovery.
- The video used as live visuals during Sufjan Stevens' Age of Adz tour.
- A look behind-the-scenes of the creation of the visuals for the All Things Will Unwind album by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for My Brightest Diamond's "Pressure".
- The music video for Sufjan Stevens' "Too Much".
- Music video for "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for "I Krill You" by Helado Negro.
- Music video for "You Cried Me" by Jookabox.
- Music video for Angelo De Augustine's "Crazy, Stoned, and Gone".
- Music video for "Magic Rabbit (Alfred Brown Remix)" by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for Sufjan Stevens' "The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius".
- Music video for "Christmas Unicorn" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for The Welcome Wagon's cover of "Remedy", originally by the David Crowder Band.
- Music video for "Enters" by Helado Negro.
- Music video for "From the Top of the World" by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for Sufjan Stevens' "The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)".
- Music video for "Reach Out" by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine.
- Music video for Jookabox's "East Side Bangs/East Side Fade".
- Animation for My Brightest Diamond's "Champagne".
- Official music video for "Sugar" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for "Be Brave" as performed by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for "Back to Oz" by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine.
- Music video for "Video Game" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for "Glyphin' Out" by Jookabox.
- Music video for Sufjan Stevens' "The Greatest Gift".
- Animated music video for My Brightest Diamond's "Inside a Boy".
- Music video for "Dragonfly" by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for My Brightest Diamond's "We Added it Up".
- Music video for "Relatives" by Helado Negro featuring Jon Philpot.
- Music video for "XXXiawn Shell" by Jookabox.
- Visuals for "America" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for "Triangulate" by Helado Negro.
- Music video for Helado Negro's "Invisible Heartbeat".
- Music video for "Take Me" by Sisyphus.
- Music video for My Brightest Diamond's "This is My Hand".
- Music video for "Year of the Tiger" by Sufjan Stevens.
- Music video for "Playas" by Helado Negro.
- Music video for Sufjan Stevens' "The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake".
- Music video of Sufjan Stevens' "Tonya Harding".
- Visuals for "A Million Pearls" by My Brightest Diamond.
- Music video for My Brightest Diamond's "Lover Killer". A pair of lovers get into an argument and two best friends turn enemies.
- Music video for My Brightest Diamond's "Freak Out (Gold Chains Panique Mix)".
- Music video for "BMB" by DM Stith.
- Music video for "Pity Dance" by DM Stith.
- Music video for Grampall Jookabox's "Let's Go Mad Together".
- Music video for Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams' "The Runaround".