We just heard Andrew Bird’s Norman score, but now comes a film project focused entirely on the singer-songwriter himself: Fever Year, director Xan Aranda’s 80-minute documentary on the latter half of Bird’s 2009, featuring studio footage, 10 live performances filmed at a pair of concerts in Milwaukee that October, and a guest appearance from St. Vincent. As of now, there are no plans to distribute the film to theaters (aside from screenings this fall/winter), but here’s hoping the trailer, which arrived today via indieWIRE, will give this project the boost it needs to reach fans’ screens worldwide. Catch a glimpse of Fever Year — described by Aranda as “a snapshot of a time during which [Bird] became perfectly adapted to the music hall” — above.
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