Augie March ‘After The Crack Up’ – Official Video

After The Crack Up is the first song from Augie March’s forthcoming fifth album.

The official video places the band in a piece of cinema history – the world’s first ever feature-length narrative film. The Story Of The Kelly Gang, made in 1906 was at its time a wildly successful film in Australia and abroad. Despite its fame, the historic film was thought to have been lost by 1940 as all known prints had disappeared. In 1976 a lucky find started a chain of events that eventually led to the film being painstakingly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive.

from Wikipedia:
The Story of the Kelly Gang is a 1906 Australian film that traces the life of the legendary infamous outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly (1855–1880). It was written and directed by Charles Tait. The film ran for more than an hour, and at that time was the longest narrative film yet seen in the world. It was first shown at the Athenaeum Hall in Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia on 26 December 1906 and in the UK in January 1908.
In 2007 The Story of the Kelly Gang was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for being the world’s first full-length feature film.

The video for After The Crack Up is faithful to the film’s silent-movie style. It was directed and edited by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, the team behind the Australian horror-comedy 100 Bloody Acres, for which Augie March singer-songwriter Glenn Richards provided the music score. The Cairnes brothers had also previously worked with the band on videos for their songs The Mothball (1998) and The Hole In Your Roof (2000).

The band and directors would like to thank the National Film and Sound Archive, and Madman Entertainment, for their assistance in the making of this video. More information from the NFSA: http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/film/story-kelly-gang/

‘After The Crack Up’ is available now on iTunes through Dark Satanic/Caroline

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