Life After Death From Above 1979 film

The story of Canadian dance-punk band, Death From Above 1979, and how the power of music shaped their tumultuous decade-long friendship.

In 2001, after years of playing in various bands, living together, and bonding over a mutual desire to continue playing music while peers abandoned rock n' roll to follow more traditional career paths, Jesse Keeler (bass) and Sebastien Grainger (drums), started a band out of boredom and necessity. They hammered out their sound in an unfinished basement in the east end of Toronto, and the result is what many have described as "an elephant in your living room."

They were propelled into the limelight based on the strength of their raucous live performances and the release of their seminal album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (2004). But as the band's success grew internationally, their friendship became strained due to constant travel, and little-to-no buffer between them. Over the course of grueling schedules and never-ending tours, they broke up in 2006, right after the biggest tour of their careers, and ended the band before reaching potential stardom.

In 2011, after five years of silence between them, and each focused on their own musical projects and respective lives, Jesse and Sebastien decided to reunite for one show: the legendary Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Life After Death From Above 1979 tells the story their rise, break-up, and coming back from the dead.

a MEMORY and COLA FILMS Production

LIFE AFTER DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

Directed by Eva Michon

Produced by Eva Michon, Riel Roch Decter, Sebastian Pardo

Featuring music by Death From Above 1979, MSTRKRFT, Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains, Femme Fatale, CSS & More

Featuring interviews with members of Justice, MSTRKRFT, The Strokes, Metric, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s & more

Coming October 7th exclusively through Vimeo On Demand

www.dfa1979-movie.com