Brady Corbet to film David Byrne's Baltimore concerts in 70mm

Brady Corbet has shot David Byrne's hometown Baltimore concerts on 70mm film. The director of The Brutalist filmed across multiple nights in May at the Hippodrome, during Byrne's tour behind his 2025 album Who Is the Sky?, and the resulting concert film is now in post production.

Byrne, who was born in Scotland and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland, said the format was the part he had underestimated. He said he had not realised what a difference 70mm would make until Corbet sent him some frames, and that it captured the wide screen scope of the show in a way he had not seen before.

Corbet framed his side of it around the city. He said he was grateful to be trusted with the hometown show on 8 perf and 15 perf 70mm, and described the band's performance as a celebration of community and of Baltimore in particular, which he called one of America's most underappreciated historic cities.

The choice of director continues a pattern. Byrne has repeatedly handed his concert films to Oscar winning or nominated filmmakers: Jonathan Demme made Stop Making Sense with Talking Heads, and Spike Lee directed the 2020 film of American Utopia.

The tour being documented launched in September 2025 and, like the American Utopia run, puts Byrne onstage with an ensemble of 13 musicians, singers and dancers in constant motion, with the setlist moving between his solo work and Talking Heads songs. It ends on September 19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York.

The film is produced by Corbet's company Pre-Code together with The Deep End Films, whose Jason Fine and Amit Dey said they were thrilled to bring the tour to the screen. It lands in a strong year for the form in rock and indie, with Paul Thomas Anderson's Cameron Winter concert film due in November and the Queen Budapest concert film opening on October 7.