For the EP Lone Runner (Suicide Squeeze). Available October 18th.
Director: Kevin Luna
Cinematographer: Joshua Aylett
Producer: Isabella Rodriguez
Assistant Director: Ryan Tebo
Make Up: Daniela Krestelica
Set Design: Diana Ionescu
Cat Wrangler: Johanna Egeberg
Actors:
Rakel Lindgren
Vincent Cordiani
Thank you to Sally Rellüm, Sparrow Lindgren, Brian Echon, Qianqian Zhang, Ljud och Bild, Film Centrum Stockholm, Cafe Copacabana, Basar Under, Frank Nieto, Elsa the Cat & Mom.
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Dirty Beaches released a number of EPs and instrumental-focused albums on cassette-only labels, before releasing the full-length Badlands in March 2011.[1] Badlands was subsequently named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.[2] Dirty Beaches has also released singles including "True Blue"/"Sweet 17," "Lord Knows Best," and "Lone Runner," as well as videos, many of them directed by Zhang himself.
Dirty Beaches is "a one man band project," sometimes employing sampling, inspired by Zhang's longtime love of hip hop. In addition to his own years moving between countries and on the road touring, films are one of Zhang's influences, particularly those by Wong Kar-wai. Zhang said Wong's movies are "usually about the passage of time, and how in relation it distorts your relationship with everything else in life. The central Dirty Beaches character is a product of those experiences. Of someone traveling long distances in search of something, in exile, misplaced, with no home to return to
