Synopsis

Set in a dreamlike Old West, "Canyon Candy" follows a young woman whose community is destroyed in a brutal massacre. As violence and betrayal spread across the frontier landscape, a mysterious Stranger experiences visions of the events and is drawn toward the survivor. The 16-minute film unfolds through symbolic images, title cards, archetypal characters and surreal interludes, presenting its simple rescue story more like a dark Western poem than a conventional narrative.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Canyon Candy" was conceived as a short film rather than a standard music video. The project was described as a "bite-sized internet epic," deliberately mixing a slow, dreamy pace with sudden violence and action.

• The film grew out of an earlier idea for a gallery project about buffalo. A song about buffalo helped connect the musicians with the filmmakers, and the film's main ideas were reportedly developed during a single brainstorming conversation.

• Although it evokes the American desert, the production was made in New York. The crew shot inside an old army terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and had to create elements such as sunsets rather than simply filming them in the landscape.

• The production embraced its limitations: horses and large-scale location shooting were not practical, so the Western world was built from sets, props and carefully controlled imagery.

• The film runs for approximately 16 minutes and is silent apart from Javelin's music and score. About half of the soundtrack came from the Canyon Candy album, while the rest was composed specifically for the film.

• The musical project was shaped by the duo's long drives through the South and American West while touring. Its sound combines country and Western references, found samples, guitars, harmonica, jaw harp and electronic production.

• Funding came through Kickstarter after the artists decided that the project's scale exceeded that of a conventional music video. They also wanted to avoid corporate sponsorship influencing the finished work.

• The film was presented as part of a larger Canyon Candy installation at New York's Clocktower Gallery. Visitors moved through a constructed cabin and surreal Western environment before reaching a theater where the film was screened.

• Javelin released the Canyon Candy EP through Luaka Bop in 2011. The release was also issued in a limited 10-inch vinyl edition connected with Record Store Day.