Uploaded by velour on Apr 2, 2008
New video for Grammy-winner Jesse Harris' song, "How Could It Take So Long?", from the album "Feel".
Director: Naama Shefi
From Jesse:
I met Naama at Palacinka Cafe in Soho, where she was a waitress. It used to be my neighborhood cafe before closing just this past January. One day she told me that she was a film student at the New School and wanted to make a video of my song "How Could It Take So Long?" Why not? When we met to discuss her idea, she said she had been seeking old Super 8 films online that she would use to cut back and forth between them and me, in the present. My father had recently passed away and it so happened that I had just re-discovered a trove of a Super 8's which he made and labeled meticulously from 1969-1980. When I told this to Naama, her eyes nearly popped out and she said, "I have to have them!" She transferred all of the films to digital, taking up 6 DVDs worth of space, and picked out the footage. In the end, the video may not have much to do with my original idea of the lyrics, which I wrote from the point of view of someone stuck inside the Super Dome in New Orleans after Katrina, but somehow it captures the feeling of the song and suggests a meaning that perhaps I did not even intend; besides, what inspires a song is often not what it ends up being about. It's an understatement, I'm sure, to say that my father would be pleased to know that these films are being used and that, in some way, however small, he has made his mark as a filmmaker.
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lynnfamily4 1 year ago
it's a "zabumba", a northern brazilian drum.
luizlima01 1 year ago
Is that a drum in the beginning or a stand up bass?
It's out of key, whatever it is.
Good song though.
seamushendry 2 years ago
great song
mrfresh9900 2 years ago
GREAT VIDEO!!!!
hirangou9 3 years ago
awesome <3
fallingaway0o 3 years ago
I liked the song, liked the vid., liked also both of them together. Thanks for uploading.
wolkowy1 3 years ago
I Loved the choreography, of the screen, the old movies, the projection on the face, the blue haze on the edge of the face, the batman as a child and today as an adult. The ball falling next to Jesse, the harmonica scenes, the new super 8 film integrated. Great ideas. Your father would be proud of this video.
marcintomasz 3 years ago