Austin-based bands, Riverboat Gamblers, Lomita and Kissinger, will have music videos showcased at this year's SXSW Film Festival.
Lomita's video for "Broken Boy," off of their album, Downtown Mystic, uses the different sequences of the song to reflect the nature of the couple who are the main focus of the video.
"I had an idea for every song on the album," said Director Jose Jones. "I liked 'Broken Boy' because I had seen the progression of it at their live show. I saw it go from very early, rough and quiet, to this intense, polished, brilliant piece of music."
Lomita's drummer Dorian Colbert said, "It is our first video period, so we're thrilled that it's getting attention"
Kissinger is not a stranger to SXSW. The video to "Sydney Stone" is the second selected for the festival. Directed by Steve Willis, Laura Cannon and Kissinger's own singer/songwriter, Chopper, the video features extensive stop animations that took two months to shoot using 1400 still images.
"While the budget was under $500, we spent thousands of hours spread out over several months planning, shooting, and editing the video," said Chopper.
"We made lots of tests before we started scripting. The technique we invented for this saved hundreds of hours of shooting, but made planning essential," continued Chopper.
Returning for a second year, Christopher Rose directed Riverboat Gambler's "Don't Bury Me … I'm Not Dead."
"The concept of the video is basically kind of a 70s B-movie sci-fi adventure," said Rose. "We wanted a lot of lasers, big strange guns and just a lot of eye candy."
The band filmed it in three days with a green screen at East Side's Super!Alright! Studios. But all the post-production work of adding underwater mermaids, claymation octopuses and laser beams took a month to produce.
"Sixteen hour days for thirty days straight," said Rose. "At the end of it, I felt like a zombie."
The three videos will air on March 7 at the Dobie Mall Theatre and on March 14 at Alamo Drafthouse on Lamar.
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