A feature-length tour film following The Lowlands across twenty-two dates, from sold-out rooms to a set played to nobody in the rain.
Kofi travelled with The Lowlands for six weeks with a crew of three, sharing their bus, their hours and most of their catering. The band's only brief was to make something they would be slightly embarrassed by, and the film keeps that promise.
Priya Natarajan and Kofi shared two small cinema cameras with fast zooms, rigged identically so either of them could pick one up mid-song. On stage they worked from the wings and the monitor desk, never the pit, which is why so much of the film looks out at the light rather than in at the band. We shot under whatever the lighting designer gave us that night and never asked for a change.
Tobias Wren took a multitrack feed from the desk at every show, so the live songs are properly mixed rather than lifted from the camera. Daniel Okafor cut 300 hours down to seventy-two minutes and built the structure around one song, played differently every night.
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