Lo-Fi Saint Louis is an independent film and video project documenting St. Louis music and culture since 2005.
I’m Bill Streeter, the filmmaker behind it. I started Lo-Fi as a way to document things happening around me. The bands, artists, neighborhood places, and people I thought more people should know about. Over time, those films became a record of a city that keeps changing.
Today, that work continues with Traces & Remains, a documentary series exploring stories through the places where they happened. A building, an empty lot, or a familiar street can be the starting point for a story much larger than what’s visible there now.
Music is a big part of Lo-Fi’s history. Lo-Fi Cherokee brought musicians, filmmakers, local businesses, and audiences together to make live performance videos along Cherokee Street. Those recordings live here alongside Lo-Fi Sessions, concert footage, earlier documentaries, and other work from the archive. They preserve the performances and something of the places and people around them.
This site brings that history together with new films and ongoing projects, including my documentary work on Beatle Bob. Some of it will be familiar if you’ve followed Lo-Fi for a while. Some of it may introduce you to a part of St. Louis you’ve never encountered.
That’s what keeps me interested: there’s always another story here.
