Nostalgia 77 – ‘Hope Suite’ – Director Steve Glashier

I downloaded hours and hours of footage from archive.org, probably 17 hours worth of footage from world fairs, newsreels, student films and American stock footage dating back to the 1930’s. I went through it all, pulling out sections that I liked or thought were pertinent to the song and edited it together. I’d got about half way through the tune and asked Ben to come and watch it- by the time it had finished he’d gone pale, because it was really quite heavy and questioned the darker side of human nature. He seemed intrigued as to how we could pull it back to being something positive, but that’s where the third movement comes in, where everything reverts back to nature. That last shot of the kid is the payoff for all the bombs that get dropped earlier on.