Documentary filming begins

In August 2007 filmmakers Keith Schieron and Tim Irwin began work on a documentary film about Jawbreaker, having previously made the 2005 Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo . All three band members were convinced to take part in the film and met at a San Francisco studio, the first time they had all met together in eleven years. “A couple years ago, I began to have a really nice time with the memory of Jawbreaker,” said Schwarzenbach, “I just thought, ‘That’s good, people finally get it.’ It was nice. So I was happy with the idea. I wanted to do it.” Bauermeister was unsure about seeing Schwarzenbach again, but stated that “there was a moment when I realized that my resentment was not so much through Blake, but what he had come to represent in my mind. So I told him.” The filmmakers had the necessary instruments and equipment set up in the studio and invited the band to play, which they did, performing “Bivouac”, “Condition Oakland”, and “Parabola”. The performance was photographed, and an audio recording was made through the sound board, but the band chose not to film the session “out of both respect for the sanctity of the moment and fear that we’d suck.” In February 2011 Schieron and Irwin shot footage in Los Angeles, including interviews with Jon Liu and the band’s former tour manager Anthony “Nino” Newman. There was talk of reuniting the band with Dear You producer Rob Cavallo, but this did not take place. Bauermeister and Schwarzenbach did not speak again for some time after the filming in San Francisco. Pfahler mentioned in a May 2015 update on the band’s official Twitter account that he had “just met with Keith Schieron about the Jawbreaker documentary. We’re interviewing editors to take it from here.”