Be Free: a short film about Faun and a Pan Flute

Bill Guzik, Mission Trips, Faun and a Pan Flute, Guerrilla Waltz, Documentary, Atlanta Music



Earlier this week, details regarding Faun and a Pan Flute’s self-titled debut LP and accompanying east coast tour were released via Mission Trips. It was the first solid documentation of Faun’s exhaustive studio and live efforts the group has been known for since its inception. Now we have another chapter: a 33-minute documentary profiling the nine-piece outfit’s lifestyle habits during a recent jaunt to Austin, Tex. for SXSW. Directed by Bill Guzik, Be Free anthologizes a free-form series of video travelogues capturing the band in various states: Trapped on the side of a road, performing on cramped basement stages, sharing meals, and basically the ups and downs of a shoestring-budgeted tour. Mike Paladino, the David Attenborough-esque narrator and close friend of the band, chronicles the story as though tracking a nomadic tribe or curious and newly discovered species, highlighting Faun’s tightly knit familial persona. As Guzik says, “There are two films that have a heavy influence on Be Free, Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera and Jamie Uys’ The Gods Must Be Crazy. I watched these films prior to the tour and developed a loose plan for shooting: Montage mixed with lifestyle vignettes observing Faun as a tribe.”

Scope the entire documentary above, and check back to our previous post for Faun’s tour dates.