Jessamy Hadfield

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Vaults "Cry No More" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

Calum’s new music video is an evocative and sumptuous film for Vaults’ new release ‘Cry No More’. The song is about the resolution not to give up, for which the band wanted a video to tell a story of female empowerment.

Calum’s inspiration came from psychoanalytic dream interpretations and the ways it is used to help patients through dream therapy. The technique encourages a patient to confront and change the distressing elements of a recurring dream, gradually leading it to a better outcome and motivating positive behavioral patterns in real life.

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Chløë Black "27 Club" (Calum Macdiarmid, dir.)

A strange lunch date with death himself that veers from smoky to sexy to surreal... Here's hoping it's not an invitiation to that 27 Club.

Calum Macdiarmid, director: “The 27 Club video was inspired by my obsessions with vintage wet plate photography and the visual aesthetics of French New Wave cinema. I wanted to create a film that was all about bold compositions and manipulation of shadows, so shooting in black and white felt like the most natural fit.

Chloe was a total gift. She was so committed to the concept from the get go. Even the pigs' brains and ants didn’t seem to phase her. Which was lucky given that the ants didn’t always behave themselves, scuttling away, trying to avoid the light, as soon as we put them on Chloe. They weren’t shy about reappearing all over us long after shooting had wrapped though."