Sparta‘s new documentary/live concert film of sorts chronicling frontman Jim Ward and the band’s career is set to premiere tonight, February 12th, on Veeps. The following was offered of what to expect from the doc, ‘Scenic Drive‘ in advance:
“One thing all humans have the unique ability to do is look back. In Scenic Drive, Jim Ward takes a road trip, literally and figuratively, through the past while also looking forward to the future. Shot in stark, striking black and white, the film follows Ward back home in El Paso, retracing the steps—both small and significant—that he took there in his youth, alongside those he’s taking now.
In it, Ward heads steadily towards the forthcoming Sparta record by revisiting songs from earlier in the band’s career. It serves as an acknowledgement that even though he’s moving on to what he calls a new volume in his and the band’s life, the past will never not be there. The result is 40 striking, stirring, moving minutes that that captures the poetry of life—of older eyes looking back on younger years—as time continues to steadily march on, the way time always does.”
