Gord Downie

 USELESS NIGHTS


 

Directed by: Sara Basso & Genevieve Blais
Starring: Rainbow Sun Francks
Year: 2020


Leveraging the momentum of this song, this video is about the journey and not the destination.

 

We follow our travelling salesman as he drearily drives through a vacant landscape along a lost highway. Through his drowsiness, he hallucinates the song’s lyrics on the road in front of him, glowing like a mirage in the distance. His focus is just to keep moving forward, getting to his next destination, and so there is constant movement through our visuals. Being in a transient state, it’s often easy to lose sight of the moment. This video is a meditation on how meaningful the mundane can be.