Marigny Tumble (2016)

The Marigny Tumble film short is a visually charged, music-propelled romance, leading us on an adventure through the colorful artistic life of the Faubourg Marigny. Since the director is also the composer of the music, the song's arrangement was shaped by the needs of the narrative. As a result, Marigny Tumble is both a music video and a narrative film short with an original score. The intricate syncopation of its imagery and dramatic flow grew organically from the music to produce a jazz form of cinematic storytelling that scintillates with energy. The song was written as a celebration of life in New Orleans' Faubourg Marigny before Hurricane Katrina. It's a romance of a frayed and radiant place and time, and of the compulsively creative denizens, their strivings scattered on the breeze like the incense of the coffee roasting warehouses ... "bitter, yes, but promise in the air." The Marigny Tumble film short evokes the spirit of that time through a love story ... a "Marigny Tumble" of the amorous kind. The narrative arc echoes the overarching simplicity of form and harmonies in the song. But the film, like the music, is layered with nuance and energized with rhythmic complexity. And as with the song's lyrics, solving the subtle mysteries you encounter in the film isn't required to enjoy the beauty of the ride.