Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland

This is my video for Sufjan Stevens song "Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" (the first track on his wonderful "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" album). The video is primarily shot with a Fisher Price PXL 2000 Pixel-vision (a toy camera made in the '80s). This early digital format helped me achieve the ghostly grainy images. Besides shooting "live" footage with the PXL I also transfered "real" UFO footage to the camera.

The sharper images are transfered stop-motion images taken by NASA on the planet Mars. I re-edited, tinted, and zoomed around the images to make them my own.

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[clayguy33]

Well done. Dust devils have always captured me too. :)

[jymdavis]

@clayguy33 Those Dust spirals are on Mars. Taken from NASA imagery on the red planet. Very cool.

[Astral1980]

Sufjan played this on Saturday in Oslo, and he cried at the end. He didn`t make a big deal out of it, but just as he finished a tear fell on the piano. Magic.

[bnortonm]

As much as I love "chicago", "seers tower", zombies, and "John Wayne Gacy" this song is my favorite on the album

[depaderico]

this is a fucking badass video for that song. congratulations, sir/madam.

[LouisEyeV]

This song makes me want to crawl beneath my sheets by the window on a rainy day, and look on watching the cars go by in the dark with their headlights streaming in, believing that i will one day live on the sky, and that i will be a UFO visting earth, a place i once called home

[TehChuckeh]

@MichaelIanJoiner As a drummer I like a rhythmic challenge so I transcribed the song. I won't lie, I had a hard time. It starts in:9/4 (or 18/8 if you wanna count 8ths) + 17/8 + 17/8 + 13/8.

[TehChuckeh]

For those who are wondering what the hell the time signature of this piece is, the beginning could be written as : 9/4 + 17/8 + 17/8 + 13/8. Then it changes at some point.

Have fun counting.

[deepcut66]

lovely yummy fuzziness ... mmm.  cocoon :)

[harryallard]

this is a beautiful song about a UFO sighting, yet people still manage to go miles off topic with their stupid arguments about Christianity in the comments section! This song, album, artist and subject are all incredible. Perfect.

[rexmundi2012]

The text of this song reads to me like a remembrance told around a fire, many years later, by someone who was alive when the earth-shattering "Event" happened (as in the memory of "then to Lebanon - Oh, God!" as being something one remembered seeing on television - and the grown-ups nervously talking about - as a child).

The references to the "flashings at night...the sirens grow and grow..." makes me think of distant explosions on the horizon and in the clouds...and police cars in the night.

[thesadester12]

Such a beautiful song

[yamikapipi]

me encanta