When I first heard of the film Scummy Man, I thought for sure it was a Charlie Sheen biopic. Turns out, it's a short film written and directed by Paul Fraser (Dead Man's Shoes) inspired by the Arctic Monkeys' song "When The Sun Goes Down."

The short was shot on 16mm by award winning Director of Photography Danny Cohen (My Wrongs, Dead Mans Shoes, This Is England, Creep) and has two parts with a total running time of approximately thirty minutes.

According to sources close to the band (i.e. their PR people), "Scummy Man tells the story of the people who lurk in the dark shadows, those who slip between the cracks of the surface in the city at night - the underclass. It's a world where girls roam the streets, out of sight and out of mind of the moral majority. All things being about perception, this underworld can be seen in a different light depending on how each person comes to experience it."

The DVD release also includes the video for "When The Sun Goes Down," which you can check out here: Quicktime, Real Player or Windows Media.

Labels: Arctic Monkeys