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ent on guitar and vocals, Steve Jenkins on lead vocals and drums, and Scott Lockhart on bass. I remember auditioning them in their practice room above a garage. They played several songs for me, and this is the one I liked. I produced Suzaie with them in the studio. Splash had some great songs. I wish I still had their demo tape. The actress was Kimberly Fonner. We had to pause filming regularly so she could regain her balance from all the spinning in place we required of her. The material in the wine glass is honey. I flipped one of the shots upside down. Can you find it? The verse recited by Nick Dement over the end credits is from the Song of Solomon. The song was originally called Susie but I changed it to Suzaie because that's what Steve's singing of it in the chorus sounded like to me. Music video is a genre wholly different than narrative or documentary film. In a music video, I always felt it was an error to make the song a mere soundtrack. Rather, the music should drive the imagery—even every cut. This is what I tried to do in Suzaie. And this is why things like jump cuts work in a music video, where they typically fail in narrative film. I shot and edited Suzaie on 16mm film as part of Stanford University's M.A. in Film Production program. This YouTube version is an MP4 rip of a half inch master, which itself was a post-production conversion to tape by OnePass way back when. Endwave Productions was the name of my production company.