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Released 2004

A DVD video collection of artists distributed on Rounder Records.

1. I’m So Open – Cowboy Junkies
2. Basement Apartment – Sarah Harmer
3. Open – Bruce Cockburn
4. Six O’Clock News – Kathleen Edwards
5. Sea of No Cares – Great Big Sea
6. Shadow of Doubt – Cash Brothers
7. We All Get A Taste – Grant-Lee Phillips
8. Bulletproof – Blue Rodeo



I’m So Open from Open
Released 2001


The band (Margo, Michael, Peter, Alan) play in the room of an apartment. During the video we see a young girl playing alone in the apartment. She drops a perfume bottle and breaks it. She is jumping on a bed with a pillow and the feathers start flying out of the pillow. When this happens feathers appear where the band is playing.

This video is available on The Open Road DVD as an Easter Egg. Go to ‘Margo and Michael Timmins Live at The Temple’ and in the fourth box from the left click once to make a picture of Michael appear, and then again to run the video.

2001 Latent Recordings
Produced in Co-operation with VIDEOFACT

Miles From Our Home from Miles From Our Home
Released 1998



The band plays at a bush party.



Angel Mine from Lay It Down
Released 1996


The band is playing in front of a movie theatre. Janeane Garofalo is working the ticket counter.
Angel Mine appears in the movie The Truth about Cats & DogsĀ starring Jeneane and Uma Therman. This is one of the very few videos showing Michael Timmins in any detail. His head is down while he plays guitar.

Video Produced by Nicole Hirsch
Edited by Declan Whitebloom


A Common Disaster from Lay It Down
Released 1996


The band plays in a shack, while a storm rages outside. Halfway through the video, the shack is lifted off the ground, and at the end of the video when the band walks calmly
out of the shack, the camera pans to the base of the shack where a set of female legs are sticking out.


Directed by Chris Applebaum
RCA VHS Video Collection
Released 1996

1. Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning
2. Misguided Angel
3. Southern Rain
4. Sweet Jane
5. A Horse In The Country
6. ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
Anniversary Song
from Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
Released 1993

Margo sings and famous couples names appear and disappear from the screen.
The rest of the band does not appear.
A Horse In The Country from Black Eyed Man
Released 1992

The band plays with a merry-go-round horse in the background and part of the time with a real horse.


Director: Dale Heslip, Producer: Allan Weinrib
Director of Photography: Robin Miller
Vast Productions Inc.
January 22, 1992
Southern Rain from Black Eyed Man
Released 1992

Director: Dale Heslip, Producer: Allan Weinrib
Director of Photography: Robin Miller
Vast Productions Inc..
December 12, 1991
Rock and Bird from The Caution Horses
Released 1990

Featuring comedian Stephen Wright at the keyboards at what turns out to be a player piano

‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel from The Caution Horses
Released 1990


The band plays on stage while a dance marathon finishes in front of them.

Director: Mark Lindquist, Producers: Bryan Johnson & Julie Fong
The Film Syndicate
May 16, 1990

Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning from The Caution Horses
Released 1990


The story follows the song, with Timmins sister Cali waking up in bed. The sheets contain some of the words to the song. She hangs around the apartment all day, does some painting/sketching enjoying the quiet, and later slides on the ice as a Toronto streetcar passes by.

Director: Mark Lindquist, Producers: Bryan Johnson & Julie Fong
The Film Syndicate
March 15, 1990
Misguided Angel from The Trinity Session
Released 1989

Features images of a boxer and the band playing mostly in shadows

Director: Geoffrey Barish
Director of Photography: Lisa Rinzler
Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) from The Trinity Session
Released 1989


The band plays in shadows

Director: Geoffrey Barish
Director of Photography: Lisa Rinzler
Sweet Jane from The Trinity Session
Released 1988

The band plays in shadows

Executive Producer: Sharon Orek
Director/Camera: Matt Mahurin
Producer: Louise Feldman

O. Pictures Inc.
November 15, 1988

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