Fleet Foxes Share New Short Film for “I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar”: Watch

Fleet Foxes have shared a short film for “I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar,” the opening track on their 2017 record Crack-Up. It’s directed by frontman Robin Pecknold’s brother Sean Pecknold, and made in partnership with WeTransfer. Watch below and at WeTransfer. In a press release, Sean Pecknold explained:

For me, the song encapsulated the themes and feelings of the whole record like an overture; the darkness / lightness, the fast / slow, the tension between two competing voices and the unpredictable dynamic shifts of tempo and voice. I wanted to create a striking visual allegory that felt both intimate and lonely, grand and triumphant.

With the film I wanted to visualize the struggle within the song through the story of a fictional character trying to escape from his house and reach an ever elusive mythical place only to be brought back to the start by the pull of a mysterious red cube. At the start of the film it’s as if we have happened upon a man tired from a repetitive struggle that has been going on for weeks, months, even years. There becomes a frustrating sense of repetition as he attempts to reach these metaphorical end goals and fails time after time. It's something I can relate to, and hopefully others can too.

Check out the feature interview “Life and Death on Manhattan Island: Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold Returns.”

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