The IFC comes through with a debut of Gil Scott-Heron’s new video for “I’m New Here”. The track comes off Scott-Heron’s 2010 release of the same name. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard directed the clip and told IFC,
“Some things should be kept simple; no messing, no gimmicks,” they said of the video. “Shot with completely live sound, with half an eye looking back on classic footage of performers like John Lee Hooker and Bob Dylan, we wanted to shoot something bold and direct, that captured something of Gil’s remarkable presence and the raw power of his performance. We filmed him the day before walking around his neighborhood in Harlem then on the day we returned with Gil to the studio. There’s no narrative here, this is a deliberately simple video for a deceptively simple and beautiful song.”
Check it out below.