Benjamin Gibbard

Actor

August 11, 1976 (49 years)

Bremerton, Washington, USA

Biography

Benjamin Gibbard is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded nine studio albums, and as one half of the electronica act the Postal Service.

Filmography

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Saturday Night Live

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A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

7.2

Conan

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A late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.

5.3

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

7.0

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

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Intimate musical performances, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.

6.0

Live from the Artists Den

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A concert showcase that features music artists performing in unique settings, such as museums, temples and synagogues. The series also features interview segments with the artists.

5.1

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Harry / Subject #20

After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.

6.0

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music

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A music driven tribute to the late indie filmmaker Lynn Shelton.

4.5

Tiny Changes

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A documentary that follows the making of Frightened Rabbit's covers album, in tribute to their seminal album The Midnight Organ Fight.

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The Postal Service Zoom Auditions

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Watch The Postal Service hold Zoom ‘auditions’ for new bandmembers including Slash, Anne Hathaway and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

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Space Songs: Through the Distance

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"Space Songs" is a YouTube concert event, sharing songs about space and isolation to celebrate how extreme situations can bring out the very best in us all and why there’s no challenge we can’t face together. Hosted by Tested’s Adam Savage, the concert featured special guests and performances by Sting, Clipping, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and more.

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D Tour

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Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, his kidney starts to fail. "D tour" chronicles the life of a musician with "no back-up plan" as he's faced with daily dialysis, a grueling tour, and a search for a new kidney.

6.8

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

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"One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" examines Jack Kerouac's escape from post "On The Road" fame to his dream of an isolated retreat in a cabin at Big Sur where he searches for inner peace. His road comes full circle with this self-exploration, resulting in an alcohol-fueled paranoia and a plunge into madness.

7.0

The Glamour & the Squalor

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Seattle DJ Marco Collins stars in this unflinching documentary about media fame and addiction, which tracks his rise, fall, and resurrection as an influential promoter of grunge, alternative rock, and electronic dance music.

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Elvis Costello & Friends

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Decades Rock Live Presents Elvis Costello and Friends, Elvis Costello performs with special guests including Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Fiona Apple and Death Cab for Cutie. Elvis Costello performs his classic hits and song’s of his guests, featuring a surprise acoustic performance of “Alison” by Elvis Costello and Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day’s “Basket Case”, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, “Accidents Will Happen” duet by Death Cab for Cutie, “I Want You”, “Shabby Doll by Fiona Apple, and “Peace, Love and Understanding” encore performance with Billie Joe Armstrong, Fiona Apple and Death Cab for Cutie. Decades Rock Live is an innovative live concert series that features performances by celebrated artists from rock to soul who have influenced popular music over the last 50 years, as well as performances from some of today’s hottest recording acts who have been inspired by these legends.

8.0

Death Cab for Cutie: Directions

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Death Cab for Cutie presents: Directions, an innovative anthology of 11 short films inspired by each song on the band's acclaimed album Plans. Every song was directed by a different director and includes 2 bonus videos of unreleased songs. The unprecedented collection came about as the brainchild of otaku-house, the production company owned and run by childhood friends Nick Harmer, bassist for Death Cab for Cutie, and video director Aaron Stewart-Ahn. They saw the opportunity to enlist a variety of talented young artists to each make a short film set to a Death Cab song, without the constraints of the traditional music video- no arbitrary performance footage, the band themselves would not appear in the films. The ultimate goal was to create a series of small films that worked together as both individual pieces of art and as a unified whole.

8.0

The Postal Service: Everything Will Change

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Everything Will Change is a feature-length documentary concert film of The Postal Service’s performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA during their 2013 reunion tour. A collaboration between Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (from Dntel), with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, The Postal Service released Give Up, their one and only album, in 2003. That record went on to sell over a million copies and most of the band’s fans never had the chance to see them perform live. In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Give Up, the band reunited to tour the world. With intimate interviews and backstage footage of the band, Everything Will Change captures one of the nights when everything did change.

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Wheedle's Groove

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During the late 60s and early 70s, and decades before Nirvana, Microsoft and Starbucks put Seattle on the map, Seattle's African American neighborhood known as the Central District was buzzing. The soul sounds filled local airwaves and packed clubs seven nights a week. As many of the bands began breaking out nationally via major record deals, television appearances, and gigs with the likes of Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder, the public demanded disco and the scene slipped into obscurity. Narrated by Seattle's own Sir Mix-A-Lot.

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Some Idealistic Future

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An unprecedented look at the ten year history of The Postal Service, from the initial collaborations that created 2003's sleeper classic Give Up, through to their recent sold out show at New York's Barclays Arena. The Creators Project provides an intimate look at the band and its process: from the dressing room to the digital (re)construction of the music to the moment the band takes the stage.

7.2

Drive Well, Sleep Carefully

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Drive Well, Sleep Carefully joins Death Cab for Cutie on tour in the spring of 2004. Filmmaker Justin Mitchell captured dozens of shows across the country and interviewed the band at length in their hometown of Seattle, WA. Shot entirely on 16mm film, the live footage is mixed with candid conversations about the creative process, the band's dedication to their work and life on the road.

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Death Cab for Cutie: Live at the Mt. Baker Theatre

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On April 22 and 23, 2009, Death Cab for Cutie returned to Bellingham, WA, where they had formed over ten years prior, to perform two sold-out concerts at the historic Mt. Baker Theatre. This film features previously unreleased performances from these two very special nights as well as interviews with band members about the band's early days in Bellingham.

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