STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK

Cult British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock stands in a vacant storefront on 14th Street in New York City, chatting and playing songs to a live, unseen audience inside the shop. A constant stream of cars and pedestrians can be seen passing behind Hitchcock's back. Occassionally someone will stop and peer through the window. During what appears to be one continuous performance, the background shifts from day to night and back again. Hitchcock draws on 60's psychedelic pop as the basis for melodic and emotional compositions, blending bitterness, weirdness and surreal humour in unusual settings. Rock superstars REM are among Hitchcock's biggest fans. Shot over four days and nights, Storefront Hitchcock records Robyn Hitchcock's unique performance of fifteen songs, interspersed with his legendary "verbals" - monologues which traverse the unparalleled and bizarre terrain of Hitchcock's imagination.