While we admire The Collingwood’s music, their management is simply impossible to work with. They are no longer a part of this event.
The Collingwood is an atmospheric, poetic rock band established in 1999. Malinowski, Pennington, Travis, Davis.
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with guitarist Chris Malinowski:
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I am a filmmaker who specializes in domestic surrealism. I love crafting ambiguous, challenging scripts and capturing imagery that heightens the mundane. I set my work in practical locations, and I aim to examine the human condition and complicated characters via true, feeling-oriented dialogue.
To add, I enjoy pitting my characters against the mysterious dialectics of fate, coincidence, and the proverbial Mother Nature. I like to see how they fare in odd circumstances, either flowing or stunted. Whatever the case, I keep them rooted in the familiarity of waking life and steeped in an existential longing.
I am a guitarist/singer/songwriter for the atmospheric rock band The Collingwood. We’ve released several albums, including the rock soundtrack/score to my feature film “Yes, Your Tide is Cold and Dark, Sir.”. We’ll be releasing a new record this year titled “You Lust or You Rust”.
I’m most proud of my feature film “Yes, Your Tide is Cold and Dark, Sir.”. I wrote and directed the film, and I played the lead. As well, I love the music videos I directed for The Collingwood: “Fuck Yeah, Hollywood!”, “White Deer”, “Confetti”, and “Jouissance”.
To add, I’m a professional guitar instructor and have been for forty years, on and off. I love simplifying/demystifying the instrument for my student body. I’m also a still photographer, specializing in the oddness of the ordinary. I like to shoot on 35mm, and I don’t use Photoshop. I dig the principles of chance.
What sets me apart from others in my fields is that I believe in total, unbridled honesty when creating.
I only create what I want to create. Art is not necessarily a commercial venture for me, although I’d love to have the cash. Rather, I get high from knowing folks experience a touch, a smell, or a taste of their own unique human fabric/dilemma via my work. Narrative/Visual ambiguity is a big part of my craft, as is the idea of existential longing.
I think some audiences are thrown by the presumptuousness of my storylines, visuals, or song length, but I trust that the intended audience will find its way to my creativity. That’s all I can do.”