One afternoon last September, Juan Diego Silva-Zúñiga, 25, was sitting on a bench in Washington Square Park, reading a short story by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, when a band started to play an indie-rock song. The six male musicians—one on the bass, one on the drums, two guitarists, a trumpet player, and a singer—had long hair like Silva-Zúñiga and looked about his age. They called themselves Pan Arcadia.
At the end of Pan Arcadia’s set, Silva-Zúñiga went up to the men and offered to direct their next music video. “I won’t charge you a single penny,” he told the band. “All I want is to work right now.” That music video—for the song “Hysteria,” from Pan Arcadia’s new EP, LIFE: As if I Know It—is out today.
