We follow the parallel lives of two unlikely characters - an astronaut lost in the city and a 1960’s uptown city girl lost in Martian like desert landscape.
'Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come' - Joseph Campbell
Music video for French trip-hop artist Al'Tarba for his track 'Take Me Back' from his album 'Let The Ghosts Sing'.
Woven together with the use of found footage from the musician's own childhood, the video is an avant-grade piece of visual poetry - an ode to the human condition and the memories that shape us.
A beautiful b&w study of motion that's as beguiling as a Rorshach Test.
Raquel Aly, director: "The first time I heard Phaeleh’s 'Whistling in the Dark' I was immediately moved by the track's capacity to instill a dark and sinister playfulness as well as a beautiful sense of longing which lapses into despair. And yet there is an elusive promise there. Something that teases and invites. I immediately recalled Norman McLaren’s 1960’s experimental masterpiece titled ‘Pas De Deux.’ His was the technique I wanted to explore, while creating a video as surreal and ghostly as the music. Giving some of the footage the kaleidoscope treatment, created a warped though balanced symmetry. Though I prefer the Directors-cut, I admit that blurring the dancer in the original release version, breathed a foetal mystery into her dance. And of course the black moor gold fish. There is something fantastic and primordial about this elegant creature. I couldn’t get enough of him"
