Videos posted by These United States

These Unites States perform Kings and Aces in the tropical forest in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Watch this intimate performance whilst eating your favorite popping corn, kettle corn, or any cousin of aforementioned food.

These United States travels again. Follow these nomadic artists always afoot, as they traverse across the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens grounds, instruments in hand, and their cases in case.

Video by Sarahana Shrestha

Brooklyn's Botanic Gardens is infiltrated by the ever moving, ever playing, ever working These United States. This showing of their acoustic live craft in an intimate desert garden is indeed a rarity to behold.

Video by Sarahana Shrestha

These United States are made for the Age of Energy - for better, for worse, for liquid, for solid, for all evaporations in between, they are movement. They are wasting what they conserve, conserving what they waste, Interstate 95 to the Fisherman's Wharf, swindling, sweating, bobbing, weaving, loving, thieving.

Video by Sarahana Shrestha

Directed by Jared Varava.
Built from 40+ public domain films, the video for "Get Yourself Home" by These United States utilizes the absolutely free and long forgotten footage of the Prelinger Archives. With each clip, a resurrected moment of early film history offers itself up to be woven into the fabric of a whole new American narrative. From the main character, who comes from a 1930's propaganda film about the importance of workers' unions, to the passing scenes of carnivals, cabarets and the great wild West, all come together to evoke the contrasting emotions, environments, sins, schemes, devils and delusions that bind us on These United States' newest release "Crimes."

this is our first music video for the new album, CRIMES, which is comin out Sept 23, just a few short days from now (well, you know, depending on when yr watchin this).  the video was put together by our good friend Jared Varava, an independent filmmaker in LA, using this pretty radical resource called The Prelinger Archives.  here's a lil somethin Jared has to say about that...

Built from 40+ public domain films, the video for "Get Yourself Home" by These United States uses the free and long forgotten footage of the Prelinger Archives.  With each clip, a resurrected moment of early film history offers itself up to be woven into the fabric of a whole new American narrative.  From the main character, who comes from a 1930's propaganda film about the importance of workers' unions, to the passing scenes of carnivals, cabarets and the great wild West, all come together to evoke the contrasting emotions, environments, sins, schemes, devils and delusions that bind us on These United States' newest release "Crimes."

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we love Jared.

we hope you love the video.

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tUs!