Low In Europe

A Film By Sebastian Schrade

LOW IN EUROPE follows American indie rock pioneers Low on a string of tour dates in Germany and the UK. Premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival and selected for the Gijon and the Sound Unseen Film Festivals, LOW IN EUROPE shows the Duluth, Minnesota trio of Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and Zak Sally on a grueling tour for their critically acclaimed album TRUST.

The honesty they bring to their very personal music is revealed to us through this glimpse into their lives on tour. Playing their hypnotic, celestial and intense music in German rock clubs in Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, the film culminates with an enthralling performance at a sold-out show at London's legendary Union Chapel.

Director Sebastian Schrade climbed into the tour van with Low, braving sleep deprivation, road hypnosis, warm beer, cold food and 1,000 cigarettes to document last year's tour across Europe and the UK. Told through van ride conversations, backstage banter, hotel room chats and late night revelations, LOW IN EUROPE is an illuminating portrait of a group making mesmerizing music at the height of their powers.

"It's simple music that's extraordinarily powerful. Proof that less is indisputably more. Slow and brooding, sparse and intense, desolate and hypnotic." -Chris Salmon, TIME OUT (London)

"Slow, austere rock bliss."
-Martin Aston, THE TIMES (London)

"Low's songs are like Shaker chairs: unadorned, timelessly beautiful, and obviously made by human hands."
-Michael Little, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER

"Quiet, moody songs that captivate listeners not with fireworks but with unforgiving introspection."
- THE WASHINGTON POST

Sebastian Schrade was born in Reutlingen, Germany in 1967. LOW IN EUROPE is his second feature documentary.

This film is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, preserving the ratio of its original exhibition.

Songs featured in the film:
"(That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace"
"John Prine"
"Canada"
"Laser Beam"
"Take the Long Way Around the Sea"
"Last Snowstorm of the Year"
"Immune"
"Time is the Diamond"
"Little Argument With Myself"
"I am the Lamb"
"Speaking in Tongues"