With more than 1,000 hours of footage, Toronto cinematographer Stephen Chung captures everything from the sprawling indie-rock collective’s earliest days to its sophomore album You Forgot It In People
From documentary It’s All Gonna Break, the three original female vocalists, from left to right: Emily Haines , Leslie Feist , Amy Milan , known by Broken Social Scene fans as the 'Holy Trinity'.For years, there was a running joke among music fans that if you were Canadian, there was a good chance you were probably a member of Broken Social Scene.
“Everybody that gets into this world usually comes from a place where they can’t speak; they can’t communicate how they feel. So they have to find something that helps them be truthful to their sense of how they take things in. For Stevie, I saw that it was images quite early on,” Drew notes.Early live performances by Broken Social Scene at Lee’s Palace, captured by Stephen Chung, who filmed everything the band did from its earliest days.
“They were in a place where I don’t know what was going on for them – probably some internal struggles and pressure from the success, and it just wasn’t the right time for them; it felt a little too early,” he says. “They just didn’t want to put it out at that time, and it broke my heart. It was super devastating, because I had put a lot of money, energy and time into it.
“What resonated with fans was the controlled chaos, and the surprise of who would show up. Really, though, when you think about the monster talent in the core members alone, it was undeniable,” Millan says. “Getting to share a stage with Emily and Leslie – these incomparable forces – is like trying to explain a lightning storm. I learned so much from their presence and abandon.
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