Sufjan Stevens - I'll Be Home For Christmas

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From Silver & Gold, Songs for Christmas Vol. 10: Christmas Unicorn.
Available November 13th on 5xCD boxset and digital, and later in LP boxset.
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Directed by - Aaron & Alex Craig
Produced by wearefilmsny.com
Cast in order of appearance:
Little girl - Olivia Himes
Santa - Kris Kringle
Funeral Goer 1 - Travis James McElmurry
Funeral Goer 2 - Ally Powell
Funeral Goer 3 - Jane Hruska
Funeral Goer 4 - Willy Muse
Dead man - Jordan Drake
Clown - Joe Thomas
Kid 1 - Madison Himes
Kid 2 - Emma Himes
Elf - Conrad Oliver
Cop 1 - David Chalk
Cop 2 - Lee Hruska
Woodsman - Clint Van Gemert
Woodsman assistant - Rachel Oliver
Mother - Holly Glasser
Father - Chris Himes
Steadicam op - Nickolas De Miranda
DP - Alex Craig
Wardrobe - Christine Talevski
AC - Blake Powell
AC - Scott Surman
Gaffer - Trever Kok
Art Director - Meghan Smith
Production Designer - Erika Pinero
Art - Lydia Velichovski
Makeup - Chris Paleo
Hair - Martha Ellen Van Germert
Props - Bonnie Cook
Crafty - Natty Green
Storyboard Artist - Drew Bremmer
Camera by Nice Dissolve
Special Thanks:
Cesar Galindo
Best Made Co.
The Schoolhouse

[@kerlmann143]

The more I listen to him, the more I believe that Sufjan pretty much invented Christmas...

[@opiesfuneral]

I really don't think so. Plausible though.

[@misscreations]

“Oh, wow. It's like that drug trip I saw in that movie while I was on that drug trip.” - Fry, Futurama

[@mathewrichwalski2586]

the ultimate video progression displaying halloween to christmas

[@Raincloudz973]

Here we go again.

[@aerotrooper]

WeAreFilmsNY has a making of clip on their youtube page now. They did 5 takes and used the 3rd. It's a 35 second continuous video shot when it's not slowed down. I thought for sure editing was involved but there wasn't. That's very impressive to me.

[@teejay89656]

Does anyone find the video along with this song eerie and creepy in a way? kind of like the way bioshock was.

[@2K10stang]

timothy giles yes, definitely, and isn’t that how the holiday season can be in our dreams? Also in reality

[@miamartinez7183]

Yes

[@_the_]

Merry Christmas to everyone❤

[@sevenswanson]

I have never seen this before, and I have been listening to Sufjan since 2011. This is strange. Was that him on the floor pretending to be dead??

[@Emma-gs1zk]

Doesn't look like his nose

[@miamartinez7183]

No.

[@iterurivers8161]

lol Sufjan Christmas suicide song. love.

[@KendallMurphyTV]

Someone explain all this to me. I love the vid but im very confused.

[@CoralVictoriaful]

Could I possibly be the only one asking "what the hell did I just watch?"?

[@TsimTsumMusic]

This is perfect.

[@ProjectLifeCommand]

I now have a favorite Christmas music video! Thanks for making this. I'm going to make everyone watch this every Christmas now.

[@DeepState5]

Sufjan should make more creepy grandiose circus music, ex. 1:07 Love it.

[@Olhado256]

The little girl is like "lol I don't give a fcuk, I WANT MY PRESENT". I think she represents America, young, innocent, and focused on mindless consumerism while the world around it goes to hell in an orgy of madness and violence.

[@jakelocker38]

wow. that was a trip. literally felt like i was on an old disneyland ride. great song and superb video

[@backroomgentleman]

This song tapped into my deepest emotions and brought up memories of Christmas past that I had forgotten...this song is just pure nostalgia for me. Fantastic version.

[@clementine1586]

The video itself is like if Wes Anderson and Taika Waititi collabed

[@nlck12]

I love the combination of macabre and mistletoe.

[@caseyhaile]

This is unsettling (in a good way)

[@AlmostVagabond]

sufjan you're killing me I hate you (I love you)

[@RayRomanMedia]

Great production work. I'd like to see a behind the scenes of the making of the video.

[@lauramarieriver]

sick and wrong! love it!!!!!

[@bnk57]

You'll be home soon.

[@whitesharkies]

this is beautiful

[@Ollie513_]

sufjan.. didn't... oh my god why. it's a great COVER, though.

[@instajawnee]

I hope that's not a dead Sufjan elf at 2:08

[@2K10stang]

Johnny Rabon it does resemble Sufjan elf

[@brianfrancis6458]

Looks like some David Lynch got in the Christmas!

[@miamartinez7183]

I'm guessing this is Sufjan letting us have a look into his mind?

[@bria4404]

it’s that time of the year again

[@_the_]

It is

[@monkey29399]

Actually he didn't write it but I do think he has the best version :)

[@pensfan870]

love the old-school sound of this

[@FIstof7LEGEND]

This video made me so sad. This year will be my first one not at home :(

[@_the_]

How did it went? How is it going to be this year?

[@ralphtheboyralphie]

Deserves a billions views. What a mind numbingly beautiful version.

[@BryanLeeDavidson]

Macabre.

[@skylerkrafft612]

You cause me such pain, Sufjan.

[@daddyfatsaxohten]

H-holy shit. I was too busy being thoroughly creeped out but that's a decent interpretation you've got there. Good work.

[@tourmalineKey]

happy hipster christmas

[@pablo9592]

I'll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents on the tree Christmas Eve will find me Where the lovelight gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams I'll be home for Christmas You can plan on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents on the tree Christmas Eve will find me Where the lovelight gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams

[@jacobsims8307]

You found the best version, congratulations!! 🎉 🎉

[@NomadicIsaac]

Directed by Tim Burton.

[@chrismarchand3570]

Creepy Sufjan.

[@karellegoguen-bancel5079]

this is so perfect! No need to be around Christmas time to listen to this!

[@golkeeper8517]

this is the xhristmas in our nightmares

[@SorenKk]

2019 ! ! Wouldn't be Christmas without Sufjan eh

[@AutumnintheNorth]

Christmas comes to Twin Peaks. I'll be at the Red Lodge for Christmas this year! ...smaerd ym ni ylno fi...

[@ask123321]

Interesting interpretation of the classic. Quite dark. Poor doggie :(

[@TheHeadHunters]

Delicate Steve @2:22 :)

[@kouchikoji]

Santa Claus being typecast once again...

[@AwakeningHeart1]

Creepy!! OMG HAHA!

[@carlcramer9623]

It reminds me of a Stanley Kubrick movie.

[@diannnoeora]

Really disturbing version!

[@kevinclick9026]

Love from space most startling video ever sincerely thermos

[@Orjonast]

Sufjan Lynch!

[@schroat1026]

Goosebumps......

[@ralphtheboyralphie]

Even better than Bing Crosby's version. Sufjan you legend! Just glorious.

[@poppop.ehrmantraut]

Thanks, this is Sufjan! xoxo

[@chewiewins]

very David Lynch like. surreal yet captivating.

[@chrismarchand3570]

I expected something bad to happen at the end to the girl.

[@zachsonpub]

Dont forget all of those words they displayed at the end :)

[@ildikozoraje7293]

Ez nagyon szép. Pontosan a karácsony meghitt hangulatét idézi.

[@thenextwhitlam]

One of the most haunting videos I've seen.

[@JSOwens]

A bit macabre, but I get it.

[@s_arina]

how did I not know this existed !! just in time for the holiday season : )

[@suppohkram]

... if only in my dreams ...

[@ryanwestikus]

dats my fuckin crib

[@aaronleecraig]

Red Epic at 120 FPS.

[@kevinclick9026]

Three stars

[@MrsGreenButterfly]

what is that shit?? that's cruel, i don't like it!

[@Genny-Zee]

I won’t

[@golkeeper8517]

is this ahorror movie?

[@monicadugo6318]

Sufjan, you've done it again!

[@hexane360]

This is very House on the Rock-esque

[@atwistedlife]

Sorry but Sufjan Stevens didn't write "I'll Be Home for Christmas", the song was recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby and was written by the American lyricist Kim Gannon, and the Jewish-American composer Walter Kent. Buck Ram, who previously wrote a poem and song with the same title, was credited as a co-writer of the song following a lawsuit.

[@Olhado256]

Funny thing is, I kinda wrote it as a joke, but then I read some of Sufjan's thoughts on Christmas and it turns out that I might have been right.

[@CleoandCoco]

Wow, you take things so literal. Thanks for the history lesson. Although he may have not written the original song, he still wrote this arrangement of it. I'm sure that the person who wrote the original comment was fully aware that Sufjan did not write the original song. It is common knowledge that this song is an old Christmas classic.

[@AstraeaAntiope]

He didn't write it. It's a carol that was written during World War II for the soldiers overseas. Hence the sadness.

[@ChristianaVerite]

Arrangement. He wrote an arrangement. Sufjan Stevens didn't write I'll Be Home For Christmas, haha.

[@TheQueenaby]

someone explain the vid pls?

[@CleoandCoco]

Think about the line, if only in my dreams. Dreams are often disjointed from reality.

[@iterurivers8161]

TheQueenaby well... subtextual suggestions of suicide... and the subtle family Christmas strains. and given his home life... I think it's a empathic tribute for how Christmas feels for the rest of us.

[@martamarta3000]

Creepy Christmas videostories always make me think of Bergman's "Fanny&Alexander". But that's a good thing.

[@DeepState5]

Looks like it... And there's a hole in the credits there for actors in order of appearance

[@Gabrielle49]

writes a song? writes..this song...how do 40 people not know this song?

[@ThisChannelsAJoke]

I like the mix of crazy Christmas theam

[@Dave12815]

that was the real santa apparently

[@DeepState5]

Ahhh I see you're in this fine video. I'll take that for credibility.

[@anabanan63]

Wow, now I really want curly hair and then running around with it in slow-motion...

[@RayRomanMedia]

I saw it last month, but thanks John!

[@Martel4]

It's a month after Christmas. This song isn't fun anymore lol.

[@SalstasticGaming]

Headline: Sufjan Stevens Writes a Song That Will Make Many People Cry

[@bettikell]

Pretty depressing... :/ I didn't enjoy that much... :(

[@RogueAshaman]

Who cries from listening to a song?

[@RayRomanMedia]

Cool thanks!

[@kidanachronism]

Sufjan Stevens didn't write this song.

[@whitesharkies]

this song.............................................

[@junebug8484]

Whoa was not expecting that. But I enjoyed it.

[@fullmetalchamploo]

what camera did you guys use to shoot this?

[@bklynskating]

Jesus christ, the mom's smile...

[@pauldanielbond]

psa: he didn't write this song.

[@anjalansh]

Are you coming home tonight? ☹️☹️☹️

[@WristCutGauze]

He didn't write this... .

[@danmotut]

ok this is awesome.