INFINITE ARMS:A SHORT BY DIRECTOR MARK PELLINGTON FOR BAND OF HORSES

Does true love exist? Director Mark Pellington (“Henry Poole Is Here,” “Arlington Road”, U2’s “One”, Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”) who recently shot the Band of Horses video for “Laredo” ponders the question in this really moving little short called “Infinite Arms”.

The people you see in the film are all locals from the area where they had been simultaneously shooting “Laredo” and they open up on camera about “love, in whatever form… pain, forgiveness, survival,” there in the desert.

“Thematically, I was interested in exploring desire and forgiveness, memory and home, decay and grief. I live for this stuff and needed to get out of LA and connect with reality,” the director explained. “The band’s music is twangy and aching so the desert felt right. I needed to see and talk to people, humanity.”

Pellington does a great job of this; complimenting these bitter sweet stories with some really beautiful imagery that brings new depth to the Band of Horses song. If you are a fan of Pellington, Band of Horses, lament lost love or daydream about finding love, you should watch this below (might take a little while to load):