Update: Our Scenes from the Suburbs review is now live. Check it out here.
Update #2: The video can be streamed directly below.
It’s finally here! After a long wait since its Berlin Film Festival premiere, MUBI is debuting Spike Jonze‘s short film Scenes From The Suburbs. Described as a “half-hour dystopian vision of a possible near future,” the film uses Arcade Fire‘s Grammy-winning Album of the Year The Suburbs as its foundation. If you live in US, Canada, Australia or Germany, you have 48 hours to watch the short and there is also a Making Of video that debuted. Check back for our review, but click the image below to get started!
Synopsis:
Director Spike Jonze teams up with Arcade Fire to create a thirty-minute short film inspired by their critically acclaimed album, The Suburbs, and its themes of war and coming of age in suburbia. Co-written by Jonze & Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Will Butler, this companion piece to the album follows the narrator, living in a suburban dystopia, trying to piece together fragmented memories from when he was a teenager, and his experiences with his friends as they grow apart.
Scenes From The Suburbs will be on The Suburbs Deluxe Edition, which hits stores on August 2nd.