Metric Single Gets Short Film Adaptation

Winnipeg experimental filmmaker Deco Dawson has created a short film using Metric's "Help, I'm Alive," the first single from their recently released Fantasies, as its soundtrack.

Dawson edited Metric's Live At Metropolis concert DVD and oversaw the live filming of the band's December tour. Unbeknownst to the group, he took concert footage of "Help I'm Alive" and "turned it into something that looks like Yo Gabba Gabba on acid," according to an Emily Haines blog post entered on Metric's MySpace page on Monday.

"Jimmy [Shaw, Metric guitarist] held a late night test screening of Deco's creation at Giant Studios to rave reviews and now we have decided to share it with the online world," Haines continued.

"This is not a music video. This is a short film in an imaginary landscape and the soundtrack is 'Help I'm Alive'. Thank you Deco."

Here's the film:

Fantasies has sold more than 24,000 digital copies since it was released late last month, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Nine thousand of those sales have been in the U.S. The newspaper reports Metric have already made more gross revenue off the album than they did from 2005's Live It Out, which sold more than 45,000 copies. Although Fantasies was released through Last Gang in Canada and Arts & Crafts in Mexico, the band self-released the album in the U.S.

"Without any intermediary, we're making 77 cents on the dollar for every record we sell [on iTunes]," co-manager Mathieu Drouin told the Times. He said Metric would have made about 22 cents per record with a traditional record deal.

Metric have these dates lined up:

April 21 Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Theatre (acoustic)
April 22 Calgary, AB @ Grand Theatre (acoustic)
April 23 Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club (acoustic)
April 24 Whistler, BC @ Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival
May 4 Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie
May 5 Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
May 6 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
May 8 Brussels, Belgium @ Les Nuits Botanique
May 9 Berlin, Germany @ Magnet Club
May 11 Manchester, England @ Academy 3
May 12 Glasgow, Scotland @ Oran Mor
May 13 Coventry, England @ The Kasbah
May 15 Brighton, England @ The Honeyclub (The Great Escape Festival)
May 16 Bristol, England @ Thekla
May 17 Oxford, England @ O2 Academy Oxford
May 19 London, England @ Electric Ballroom
June 4 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
June 5 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
June 6 San Francisco, CA @ BFD Festival
June 7 San Diego, CA @ Independence Jam
June 8 Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
June 11 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater
June 12 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
June 13 Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
June 14 Chicago, IL @ Metro
June 15 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
June 17 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
June 18 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
June 19 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
June 20 Toronto, ON @ Downsview Park (Edgefest)