Secret Machines Film Movie in Town

You may remember Secret Machines from Open House 2003 if you were lucky enough to catch their performace "in-the-round" at the AmVets building. The psychodelic New York rock band, originally from Dallas and OKC, filled the hall with a massive sound laced with spatial depth - somehow incredibly appropriate for the time and place... definitely the most fitting music act invited to Open House weekend so far. Apparently that weekend has left an indelible mark on the band's outlook, as they recently returned to film a full-length art film.

-Weird, What is That?
[Nashville Scene] "...they’ve been embraced by a tiny art community in far west Texas, internationally known not only for its art, but for its rich history of unexplained supernatural phenomena... “There’s ghost towns and hot springs and weird art installations and strange unexplained lights,” says Brandon fondly. He’s referring to the area in and around Marfa, Texas, where the band recently shot a full-length film with the visually complementary avant-garde director Charles de Meaux—ringleader behind the Paris-based production company Anna Sanders Films. Brandon gives the backstory: “Every October, there’s a big party there held by this art group, the Chanati Foundation. We played there in 2003 and 2004 and the people we performed for were so varied: artists, ranchers, children, border-town people, just the most diverse and interesting audience we’d ever experienced—it was totally positive and exciting. So we had the idea to try and capture that feeling and talk about what is really going on there.”

“One of the initial attractions was Donald Judd’s legacy,” says Josh. Judd’s the minimalist sculptor that helped launch Marfa’s art mecca. “When we got there,” Josh elaborates, “we realized, the attraction’s not him, there’s something in the air, in the ground, something in this part of the world.” All three Secret Machines excitedly start chiming in. Brandon: “There’s a mystical-like quality, a feeling of something much bigger than humanity.” Ben: “There’s this huge mountain there that’s almost completely made of iron and causes a lot of electrical interferences. The magnetics are really crazy and have a peculiar effect on the plants and the animals—and our equipment. We wrote and recorded a whole bunch of new music while we were there and all of our shit kept breaking.” full article

-Secret Machines Work from Online Base
[Monsters & Critics] To help promote 'Ten Silver Drops,' the band shot a film in Marfa, Texas, based on the songs on the album. Watts-Russell [VP of A&R at Warner Brso.] hasn`t seen it yet, but says the act pitched it as a cross between the Wim Wenders film 'Wings of Desire' and Pink Floyd`s 'Live at Pompeii.' 'Time will tell whether they pull it off, but it`s certainly a creative endeavor,' he says. full article