Archive Cinema City 2011.

Scenes from the Suburbs

Scenes from the Suburbs

Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 2010
Duration: 30 min

Director: Spike Jonze
Scenario: Will Butler, Win Butler, Spike Jonze

Cast: Sam Dillon, Zoe Graham, Zeke Jarmon, Paul Pluymen, Ashlin Williamson

Programme selection: Planet Rock

Synopsis:

Director Spike Jonze teams up with Arcade Fire to create a thirty-minute short film inspired by their critically acclaimed album, The Suburbs, and its themes of war and coming of age in suburbia. Co-written by Jonze & Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Will Butler, this companion piece to the album follows the narrator, living in a suburban dystopia, trying to piece together fragmented memories from when he was a teenager, and his experiences with his friends as they grow apart.



 

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