3 Songs
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Devan Joseph, Jason Gaines
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: humorous, theatrical
The band MAURICE rips through three songs in a bare studio, costume and mood shifting between each track. The crew lingers in frame — the artifice is the point.
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The scouts
Three songs, no plot, no apology — just bodies committing to a bit until the bit becomes the truth. That's the kind of formal honesty most narrative shorts could never.
Performance-doc hybrid that keeps the crew visible and lets the songs do the dramaturgy is a real strategy, but band performance shorts only work when the band is genuinely interesting and the page can't quite confirm that. Curiosity tempered by caveat.
Performance-doc where the crew stays in frame and three costume changes mark three songs — that's the right way to handle band-as-character without faking spontaneity. Kinetic cutting through a production teetering on collapse is the whole point.
Reviews
Dynamic music video that frames potent performances with kinetic editing
built with a loose, raw energy and an emotional core