Grizzly Bear - Knife ｜ A Take Away Show

What this video is

Filmed in the Charonne district of Paris in May 2006, this session is Take Away Show #10 for La Blogothèque — one of the earliest entries in a format that would redefine web-native music video. Grizzly Bear, then largely unknown outside Brooklyn underground circles, performed an entirely a cappella, unplanned version of 'Knife' while walking Paris streets without instruments. The clip was filmed nearly a full year…

Why it matters

A canonical document of mid-2000s chamber pop / indie folk at its most elemental: entirely voice-based, filmed with zero production infrastructure. 'Knife' became one of the defining songs of the Brooklyn indie wave (ranked No. 109 on Pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s), and this Take Away…

The director

Vincent Moon (real name Mathieu Vincent Saura, born 25 August 1979) is an independent filmmaker, photographer, and sound artist from Paris. In 2006 he co-created the Take Away Shows / Concerts à Emporter project with Christophe 'Chryde' Abric for La…