Filmmakers towed piano to Miami sandbar

MIAMI, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Indie filmmakers Billy and Anais Yeager say they put the grand piano that appeared this week on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay to protest the city's vanity.

"I wasn't going to say anything, but rather (than) someone say it was just a silly piano from a music video, I said I'm not going to let that slide. This is highly symbolic and profound," Billy Yeager, who said he and his wife have left pianos in Malibu, Death Valley, Costa Rica and Guatemala, told the Miami New Times.

The Yeagers are working on the third film of a trilogy called "Jesus of Malibu."

The couple said they towed the derelict piano from a friend's estate on a homemade barge, a journey that took 6 hours.

"We did it at 2 a.m. … to get the sun-up shot, but we just missed it," Yeager said, adding that depending on the piano's placement, the message can be positive or negative.

Evidently, the Guatemala stunt was a positive statement, but the Miami message is a negative one.

"I was raised in Miami and know about the vanity there. There's nothing enlightening. There's nothing about truth. It's all about vanity. So it's not a happy story. It's a protest," Yeager said.