In 2015, David Byrne staged four concerts in Toronto and Brooklyn that matched 10 songwriters with 10 color guard squads — the film version, shot at the Brooklyn shows, opens on March 1st.
A trailer for Contemporary Color, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, has just been posted on YouTube, and it looks like quite a spectacle. The composers include St. Vincent, Lucius, Nelly Furtado and Money Mark and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys fame. Color guard is a competition that has been called “the sport of the arts” and involves synchronized dance routines featuring flags, rifles and sabers. (TheFilmstage.com)