Arcade Fire Working With Director Spike Jonze on Short Film

April 12th, 2010

Grant Trimboli

A spokesperson for Spike Jonze tells MTV that the visionary director “will be in Austin shooting a short film which is a collaboration with Arcade Fire.” This confirms an initial rumor reported yesterday on fan site Joel’s Arcade Fire Blog and picked up by /Film, who added that the short involves teenage friends growing apart.

Further details are scarce, but Arcade Fire are due to release a new album later this year– they’ve already got some festival gigs lined up. Could this be an extended music video a la Jonze’s recent mini-epic for Kanye West, “We Were Once a Fairytale”? No word from Arcade Fire’s people yet.