Bill Draheim's Reel

These are live performances I produced, directed, shot, and or edited.

Travel back in time to when space and logic mattered for only a few minutes. 1999 is that time and the 7th Street Entry is that space. Once again Detroit pul...

This is a short film I directed about the Minneapolis metal band SUB LEVEL. The film follows the bands three performances; 7th Street Entry and First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the former Ryan's in Saint Paul, Minnesota; before heading to De Moines, Iowa for Budafest. The event was in all fairness a disaster. Not enough marketing, lack of planning, and the police played important roles for failure. But the music proved to encapsulate the energy and integrity of Minnesota's metal scene. Producer Director Camera Operator Editor

If one man’s trash is another’s treasure, then Bill Draheim’s cinéma vérité work of art is a proverbial war chest of pungent plunder. Equal parts rock’n’roll retrospective, American allegory, and cautionary chill, Trashfest 2000 reveals to us the gorgon’s head of an endangered American subculture. You may wish to avert your eyes, but you will leave knowing that what you have just been made privy to is something too raw and vital to be easily dismissed. We open to a dark screen....

Mike Watt, the great bassist from Minutemen, fireHose, The Stooges, etc., is the focus of this documentary. After 49 tours across the United States Watt performs his first gig in Duluth at the Norshor Theater then his first show in Saint Paul at the Turf Club. Finally the documentary ends in Minneapolis with his 46th show in as many days at the 7th Street Entry. Co/Director Camera Operator

The film Save Me from my Half-Life Drive is the result of edited EPK footage shot while making music videos for Remy Zero's "Save Me", Local H's "Half-Life" and Incubus' "Drive". This cinéma vérité piece reveals the complexity of making high-buck industry driven videos of the late 90's and early part of 2000. Director Camera Operator Editor

Matchbox Twenty's third studio album "More Than You Think You Are", is the subject of this 2002 documentary. Paired down from more than 400 hours of footage shot. This film shows the first segment while the band recorded for several months at the legendary Bearsville Studio near Woodstock, New York. The band then finished this album at the Hit Factory in Manhattan. Do to creative difference's that footage still remains in the can. Co/Director Camera Operator