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Directed by Jim Wilmot
Vevo Executive Producer: Nick Calafato
Vevo Producer: Yomi Ogunsola
Vevo Production Coordinator: Debbie Ijaduola
Vevo Music & Talent: Carl Young
Vevo Design Lead: Charlee Twigg
Vevo Design: Bee Clark
Vevo VFX: Oliver Freeman
Vevo Editorial & Programming Lead: Becky Thomas
Vevo Senior Editor: Helena Duque
Vevo Post-Production Coordinator: Scott Robson
Vevo PR & Communications: Molly Boekenheide
Director of Photography: Rick Joaquim
1st AD: Carter Simpkin
2nd AD: Kimane Erskine
1st AC/Focus Puller: Jim Mclean
2nd AC/Loader: Esther Edusi
Steadicam Operator: Beaumont Pritchard-James
Light Operator: Josh Mansfield
Light Operator: Matt Knowles
Stills: Jordan Hughes
Colourist: Jonny Tully @ CHEAT
Gaffer: Dom Aronin
Spark: Nic Britt
Spark: Dave Nye
Spark: Bill Rae Smith
Spark: Michael Schmidt
Spark: John O'Leary
Spark: Adam Burunzc
Spark: Tom Guy
Lead Rigger: Joe Gee
Rigger: Ben Love
Rigger: Colin MacIntire
Rigger: Adam Gee
Rigger: Joe Goodnman
Rigger: Adam Benazzouz
Rigger: Josh Grayham
Rigger: Barry Marchena
Key Grip: Mo Abdi
Grip Assist: Leonard Kuhn
Art Director: Louis Gibson
Art Assistant: Sarah Henning
Art Assistant: Jack Rooney
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Styling Assist: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assist: Rafaela Roncote
Styling Assist: Elisa Carcano
Styling Assist: Kiran Lacy
Styling Assist: Kat
Make-Up: Elaine Lynskey
MUA Assist: Fernanda Paz
MUA Assist: Alice Swindells
MUA Assist: Lynda Darragh
Hair Stylist: Matt Mulhall
Vevo Sound Engineer: Alex Archer
Vevo Sound Assistant: Matt Facey
Runner: Dominic Foster
Runner: Eleanor Hann
The 1975 Creative Director/Styling: Patricia Villirillo
Band Monitor Engineer: Steve Donavon
Band Audio Tech: Baz Tymms
Guitar Technician (Matty): Jack Hughes
Guitar Technician (Hann): Matthew VanGasbeck
Bass Technician (Ross): Joel Ashton
Drum Technician (George): James Sharp
Band Playback Technician: Steve Rodd
Band Production Coordinator: Judit Matyasy
Band Production Manager: Joshua Barnes
Band Sound Engineer: Lee McMahon
Mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mix assistant: Megan Searl
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
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The 1975 don’t stand still. Their vision is broad, and every time they drop a new album, that vision widens a little bit further. Certainly that’s the case with ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language,’ the Brit outfit’s fifth studio affair and a radiant follow-up to 2020’s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form.’ But not “radiant” in a glimmering way, like a bauble that shines a bit too much. “Radiant” as in real. A sense of verité streaks through “All I Need To Hear” and “I’m In Love With You” – with Jack Antonoff, Matty Healy, and drummer George Daniel guiding the way the music was captured, it sounds like the band is playing them live. And that’s attractive. So we had Team Healy, which also features guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald, celebrate their latest victory by burning through some of their new tunes for our Official Live Performances program. With “Part of the Band,” come for Matty’s incisive social observations, stay for the sonorous sax solo.
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Director of Photography: Rick Joaquim
1st AD: Carter Simpkin
2nd AD: Kimane Erskine
1st AC/Focus Puller: Jim Mclean
2nd AC/Loader: Esther Edusi
Techno Crane Operator: Lucas Lytra
Crane Tech Assist: Chris Hallum
Steadicam Operator: Beaumont Pritchard-James
Light Operator: Josh Mansfield
Light Operator: Matt Knowles
Stills: Jordan Hughes
Colourist: Jonny Tully @ CHEAT
Gaffer: Dom Aronin
Spark: Nic Britt
Spark: Dave Nye
Spark: Bill Rae Smith
Spark: Michael Schmidt
Spark: John O'Leary
Spark: Adam Burunzc
Spark: Tom Guy
Lead Rigger: Joe Gee
Rigger: Ben Love
Rigger: Colin MacIntire
Rigger: Adam Gee
Rigger: Joe Goodnman
Rigger: Adam Benazzouz
Rigger: Josh Grayham
Rigger: Barry Marchena
Key Grip: Mo Abdi
Grip Assist: Leonard Kuhn
Art Director: Louis Gibson
Art Assistant: Sarah Henning
Art Assistant: Jack Rooney
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Styling Assist: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assist: Rafaela Roncote
Styling Assist: Elisa Carcano
Styling Assist: Kiran Lacy
Styling Assist: Kat
Make-Up: Elaine Lynskey
MUA Assist: Fernanda Paz
MUA Assist: Alice Swindells
MUA Assist: Lynda Darragh
Hair Stylist: Matt Mulhall
Vevo Sound Engineer: Alex Archer
Vevo Sound Assistant: Matt Facey
Runner: Dominic Foster
Runner: Eleanor Hann
The 1975 Creative Director/Styling: Patricia Villirillo
Band Monitor Engineer: Steve Donavon
Band Audio Tech: Baz Tymms
Guitar Technician (Matty): Jack Hughes
Guitar Technician (Hann): Matthew VanGasbeck
Bass Technician (Ross): Joel Ashton
Drum Technician (George): James Sharp
Band Playback Technician: Steve Rodd
Band Production Coordinator: Judit Matyasy
Band Production Manager: Joshua Barnes
Band Sound Engineer: Lee McMahon
Mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mix assistant: Megan Searl
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
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Vevo Design: Bee Clark
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Vevo Senior Editor: Helena Duque
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Director of Photography: Rick Joaquim
1st AD: Carter Simpkin
2nd AD: Kimane Erskine
1st AC/Focus Puller: Jim Mclean
2nd AC/Loader: Esther Edusi
Techno Crane Operator: Lucas Lytra
Crane Tech Assist: Chris Hallum
Light Operator: Josh Mansfield
Light Operator: Matt Knowles
Stills: Jordan Hughes
Colourist: Jonny Tully @ CHEAT
Gaffer: Dom Aronin
Spark: Nic Britt
Spark: Dave Nye
Spark: Bill Rae Smith
Spark: Michael Schmidt
Spark: John O'Leary
Spark: Adam Burunzc
Spark: Tom Guy
Lead Rigger: Joe Gee
Rigger: Ben Love
Rigger: Colin MacIntire
Rigger: Adam Gee
Rigger: Joe Goodnman
Rigger: Adam Benazzouz
Rigger: Josh Grayham
Rigger: Barry Marchena
Key Grip: Mo Abdi
Grip Assist: Leonard Kuhn
Art Director: Louis Gibson
Art Assistant: Sarah Henning
Art Assistant: Jack Rooney
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Styling Assist: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assist: Rafaela Roncote
Styling Assist: Elisa Carcano
Styling Assist: Kiran Lacy
Styling Assist: Kat
Choreography: Ross Nicholson, Jay Revell, Kieran D-W | Black Skull Creative
Make-Up: Elaine Lynskey
MUA Assist: Fernanda Paz
MUA Assist: Alice Swindells
MUA Assist: Lynda Darragh
Hair Stylist: Matt Mulhall
Vevo Sound Engineer: Alex Archer
Vevo Sound Assistant: Matt Facey
Runner: Dominic Foster
Runner: Eleanor Hann
The 1975 Creative Director/Styling: Patricia Villirillo
Band Monitor Engineer: Steve Donavon
Band Audio Tech: Baz Tymms
Guitar Technician (Matty): Jack Hughes
Guitar Technician (Hann): Matthew VanGasbeck
Bass Technician (Ross): Joel Ashton
Drum Technician (George): James Sharp
Band Playback Technician: Steve Rodd
Band Production Coordinator: Judit Matyasy
Band Production Manager: Joshua Barnes
Band Sound Engineer: Lee McMahon
Mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mix assistant: Megan Searl
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
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The 1975 don’t stand still. Their vision is broad, and every time they drop a new album, that vision widens a little bit further. Certainly that’s the case with ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language,’ the Brit outfit’s fifth studio affair and a radiant follow-up to 2020’s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form.’ But not “radiant” in a glimmering way, like a bauble that shines a bit too much. “Radiant” as in real. A sense of verité streaks through “All I Need To Hear” and “I’m In Love With You” – with Jack Antonoff, Matty Healy, and drummer George Daniel guiding the way the music was captured, it sounds like the band is playing them live. And that’s attractive. So we had Team Healy, which also features guitarist Adam Hann and bassist Ross MacDonald, celebrate their latest victory by burning through some of their new tunes for our Official Live Performances program. First up? “Oh Caroline.” Everything is well measured on this one, ‘cept for when Matty pours his heart out at the end. Stay tuned, more coming.
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Vevo Producer: Yomi Ogunsola
Vevo Production Coordinator: Debbie Ijaduola
Vevo Music & Talent: Carl Young
Vevo Design Lead: Charlee Twigg
Vevo Design: Bee Clark
Vevo VFX: Oliver Freeman
Vevo Editorial & Programming Lead: Becky Thomas
Vevo Senior Editor: Helena Duque
Vevo Post-Production Coordinator: Scott Robson
Vevo PR & Communications: Molly Boekenheide
Director of Photography: Rick Joaquim
1st AD: Carter Simpkin
2nd AD: Kimane Erskine
1st AC/Focus Puller: Jim Mclean
2nd AC/Loader: Esther Edusi
Steadicam Operator: Beaumont Pritchard-James
Light Operator: Josh Mansfield
Light Operator: Matt Knowles
Stills: Jordan Hughes
Colourist: Jonny Tully @ CHEAT
Gaffer: Dom Aronin
Spark: Nic Britt
Spark: Dave Nye
Spark: Bill Rae Smith
Spark: Michael Schmidt
Spark: John O'Leary
Spark: Adam Burunzc
Spark: Tom Guy
Lead Rigger: Joe Gee
Rigger: Ben Love
Rigger: Colin MacIntire
Rigger: Adam Gee
Rigger: Joe Goodnman
Rigger: Adam Benazzouz
Rigger: Josh Grayham
Rigger: Barry Marchena
Key Grip: Mo Abdi
Grip Assist: Leonard Kuhn
Art Director: Louis Gibson
Art Assistant: Sarah Henning
Art Assistant: Jack Rooney
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Styling Assist: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assist: Rafaela Roncote
Styling Assist: Elisa Carcano
Styling Assist: Kiran Lacy
Styling Assist: Kat
Make-Up: Elaine Lynskey
MUA Assist: Fernanda Paz
MUA Assist: Alice Swindells
MUA Assist: Lynda Darragh
Hair Stylist: Matt Mulhall
Vevo Sound Engineer: Alex Archer
Vevo Sound Assistant: Matt Facey
Runner: Dominic Foster
Runner: Eleanor Hann
The 1975 Creative Director/Styling: Patricia Villirillo
Band Monitor Engineer: Steve Donavon
Band Audio Tech: Baz Tymms
Guitar Technician (Matty): Jack Hughes
Guitar Technician (Hann): Matthew VanGasbeck
Bass Technician (Ross): Joel Ashton
Drum Technician (George): James Sharp
Band Playback Technician: Steve Rodd
Band Production Coordinator: Judit Matyasy
Band Production Manager: Joshua Barnes
Band Sound Engineer: Lee McMahon
Mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mix assistant: Megan Searl
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
http://www.the1975.com/bfiafl
Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language - Out Now
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Being Funny In A Foreign Language
The new album.
Out now - the1975.com/bfiafl
Lyrics
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Heartbeat is coming in so strong
If you don’t stop I’m gonna need a second one
Oh, there’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you baby (hold that thought)
Yeah, there’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you baby
but I just can’t do it
What a call, moving in
I feel like I can loosen my lips
(come on so strong)
I can summarise it for you
It’s simple and it goes like this..
I’m in love with you
She’s got her broadsheet, reading down the list of the going wrong
s
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
I’m getting no sleep. Tossing and turning all night long
Oh, there’s somewhere I’ve been meaning to take the conversation (hold that thought)
Yeah, there’s somewhere I’ve been meaning to take the conversation, but I just can't do it
You show me your black girl thing, pretending that I know what it is (I wasn’t listening)
I apologise, you meet my eyes
Yeah it’s simple and it goes like this..
I’m in love with you
Yeah I got it!
I found it!
I've just gotta keep it
‘Don’t fuck it, y
ou muppet!!’
It’s not that deep
I’ve been counting my blessings
Thinking this through just
like ‘1, 2.. yeah I’m in love with you!!’
I’m in love with you
Credits
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Director: Samuel Bradley
Written by: Matthew Healy
Creative Directors: Matthew Healy, Patricia Villirillo
Production Company: Amelia Studios
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Movement Director/Choreographer & Lead Performing Artist: Katie Collins
Creative Producer: Jamie Glydon
Producer: Natalie Steiner
Producer: Cora Rodriguez
DOP:Jaime Ackroyd
Production Designer: Max Bellhouse
Label: Dirty Hit
Featuring: Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, John Waugh & Jamie Squire
Makeup Artist: Elaine Lynskey
Hair Stylist: Matt Mullhall
Casting Director: Jinjo Casting
Post Production: Pundersons Gardens & Bubble TV
Editor: Toby Heard
Colourist: John O’Riordan
VFX: Richard Greenwood & Ben Gallagher
BTS: Jordan Curtis Hughes
Crew
1st AD: Tom Wynborne
2nd AD: Niomi Collins
Production Manager: Zoe Travica
Production Assistant: Chirolles Khalil
Production Assistant: Nessie Appleton
Focus Puller: Sinan Yilmaz
2nd AC: Anastasiya Cherkasyuk
Camera Trainee: Niyi Ferreira
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Juanjo L. Salazar
2nd Unit Focus Puller: Nacho Munoz
Camera Car Driver: Max Corjeniuk
Gaffer: Matt Moffatt
Spark/HGV Driver: Chris Rossell
Spark: Steve Murphy
Spark: Ed Horton
Genny Operator: Cade Conetta
Key Grip: Neil Blakesley
Grip: Jamie Cobb
Grip Trainee: Millie Rose Wells
Chippie: Sam Tower
Video Playback: Alex Bates
Audio Playback: Edwin Brawn
Wires Rigger: Simon Frost
Wires Operator: Jeremy Wingham
Wires Operator: Adrian Skelton
Stunt Coordinator: Austin Spangler
Choreographer Assistant: Nicholas Tredrea
Styling Assistant: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assistant: Heidy Hayoung Seo
Styling Assistant: Alice Secchi
Styling Intern: Viviana Icaza
Styling Intern: Louise Armstrong
Seamstress: Hayley Cherkas
Styling Rep: Future Rep
Senior Makeup Assistant: Jennifer Glynn
Makeup Assistant: Esme Horn
Makeup Assistant: Alice Swindells
Makeup Assistant: Chloe Palmer
Makeup Assistant: Anna Lumsden
Makeup Assistant: Tina Khatri
Hair Stylist Assistant: Stefano Mazzoleni
Hair Stylist Assistant: Charles Stanley
Art Assistant: Tilly Power
Art Assistant: Noah Ponte
Art Assistant: Jimmy Van Twest
Runner/Driver: James Mathewson
Runner: James Williams
Runner: Zoe Bradley
Runner: Rowan James-Brown
Talent Runner: Natnael Dawit
Talent Runner: Alice Ellis
Location Manager: Nigel Crisp
Paramedic: Gareth Thomas
Camera Equipment: Panavision
Lighting Equipment: Prolight
Cast:
Clown: Kamil Sznajder
Clown: Angela McIntosh
Clown: Mia Margaret
Clown: Joerg Stadler
Clown: Andrew Roberts
Clown: Kam Chan
Clown: Yasser Kayani
Clown: Luna T
Dancer: Ken Nguyen
Dancer: Bogdan Pascal
Being Funny In A Foreign Language
The new album.
Out now - the1975.com/bfiafl
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She showed me what love is
Now I’m acting like I know myself
Oh in case you didn’t notice
I would go blind just to see you
I’d go too far just to have you near
In my soul I've got this feeling I didn’t know until I seen ya!
My, my, my
Oh
My, my, my
You mind my mind
You mind my mind
Oh
My, my, my
You mind my mind
Oh
My, my, my
She’s insatiable is what she is
Her body’s like a modern art
Take it out in front of me
I’m gonna stop messing it up because I’m feeling like I’m messing it up because I’m calling out your name and God help me cos Oh I’m never gonna love again
Hey!
I’m never gonna love again
Hey!
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you?
You met me at the right time
Met me at the right time
Oh, Show me your love
Why don’t you?
(Oh oh oh)
She showed me what love is
Now I’m acting like I know myself
Oh in case you didn’t notice
I’m never gonna love again
Hey!
I’m never gonna love again
Hey!
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don’t you?
_____
Director: Samuel Bradley
Creative Director: Matthew Healy & Patricia Villirillo
Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Production Company: Amelia Studios
Creative Producer: Jamie Glydon
DOP: Michal Babinec
Producer: Ghandi El-Chamaa
Art Director: Suzanne Beirne
Label: Dirty Hit
Key Makeup Artist: Elaine Lynskey
Key Hair Stylist: Matt Mullhall
Casting Directors: Holly Shearn & Hannah Ashby Ward at LANE Casting
Post Production: Pundersons Gardens
Editor: Toby Heard
Colourist: John O'Riordan
Crew
1st AD: Ellicia Lotherington
2nd AD: Rose Lucas
3rd AD: Oliver Hill
Production Manager: Rachel Bashford
Production Assistant: Alice Ellis
Movement Director: Liv Lockwood
1st AC: Marco Alonso
2nd AC: Leo Winslow
Trainee: Tamara Turoczi
BTS: Jordan Curtis Hughes
Gaffer: Alex Edyvean
Spark: Sam Alberg
Spark: Paul Roe
Spark: John Forsthye
Spark: Pearce Crowley
Spark: Stefan Mitchall
Spark: Jonthan JT Tomlin
Spark John Forsthye
Playback Op: Roger Cutting
Live Tech: Lewis Morgan
Tech Assist: Sam Morris
Tech Assist: Josh Harrington
Styling Rep: Future Rep
Styling Assistant: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assistant: Rafaela Roncete
Styling Assistant: Alice Secchi
Styling Intern: Saffron Mcleod
Styling Intern: Anita Makinde
Makeup Assistant: Isobel Kennedy
Makeup Assistant: Chloe Holt
Hair Stylist Assistant: Vimal Chavda
Hair Stylist Assistant: Stefano Mazzolen
Art Assistant: Solene Riff
Art Assistant: King Owusu
Art Assistant: Harry Beedle
Runner: Elijah Dobson
Runner: Vee Baginski
Runner: Francesca Stone
Runner: Rosie Meyer
Runner: Maria Jose Beltran
Location Manager: Callum Chisholm
Marshall: Daisy Alexander
Paramedic: Russell Warner
Horse Master: Adam Francis
Animal Handler: Chiez Bufton - The Devils Horsemen
Camera Equipment: One Stop Films
Lighting Equipment: SHL
Film provided by: Kodak
Scanning: Digital Orchard
Cast:
Saxophonist: John Waugh
Keys: Jamie Squire
Eman Alali
Aidan James
Paul Donaldson
Catrina Moscato
Tedroy Newell
Daniel Earl
Sibylla Meinberg
Richard D Myers
Kishana J
Amrit
Being Funny In A Foreign Language
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___
She was part of the air force
I was part of the band
I always used to bust into her hand
In my imagination
I was living my best life
Living with my parents
Way before the paying penance and verbal propellants
And my cancellations
And I fell in love with a boy,
it was kinda lame
I was Rimbaud and he was Paul Verlaine
In my imagination
So many cringes in the heroin binges,
I was coming off the hinges,
Living on the fringes of my imagination
Enough about me now
‘You gotta talk about the people baby’
Now I’m at home - somewhere I don’t like
Eating stuff off of motorbikes
Coming to her lookalikes
I can’t get the language right
Just tell me what’s unladylike
I know some ‘Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas’ sitting in east on their communista keisters writing about their ejaculations
I like my men like I like my coffee
Full of soy milk and so sweet it won’t offend anybody whilst staining the pages of the nation
A Xanax and a Newport
‘I take care of my kids’ she said
The worst inside of us begets that feeling on the internet
It’s like someone intended it
A diamond in the rough begets the diamond with a scruff you get
Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke? Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke calling his ego imagination?
I’ve not picked up that in 1,400 days and 9 hours and 16 minutes babe - it’s kind of my daily iteration
___
Director: Samuel Bradley
Creative Director & Stylist: Patricia Villirillo
Production Company: Amelia Studios
Creative Producer: Jamie Glydon
Producer: Ghandi El-Chamaa
DOP: James Beattie
Production Designer: Louis Gibson
Label: Dirty Hit
Key Makeup Artist: Elaine Lynsky
Key Hairstylist: Matt Mullhurn
Casting Directors: LANE Casting - Hannah Ashby Ward, Holly Shearn
Post Production: Pundersons Gardens
Editor: Toby Heard
Colourist: John O'Riordan
String arrangement adapted for video by Kirsty Mangan
Strings directed by Dan Oates
Cast
Saxophonist: John Waugh
Saxophonist: Yamin Ogilvie
Child: Dara Gleeson
Child: Ned H
Child: Dixie S
Child: Sebastian F
Child: Aaron Ghebre
Child: Kai’yonna Lewin
String Player: Agatha Tumusiime
String Player: Chiara Ponticos
String Player: Paris Dhillon
String Player: Mia Scott
String Player: Lizzy Lotery
String Player: Elidona Bokrugji
String Player: Julia Haworth
String Player: Anouska Kill
String Player: Millie Hindmarch
String Player: Antonia Richards
Priest: William Relton
Priest: Sanjiv Hayre
Priest: Harmage Singh Kalirai
Priest: Sean Earl Mcpherson
Priest: Richard Clevedon Smith
Priest: Preslav Shipkaliev
Business Man: Dennis Chua
Business Man: Hadi Kermani
Business Man: Sam Shoubber
Crew
1st AD: Ellicia Lotherington
2nd AD: Rose Lucas
3rd AD: Oliver Hill
Production Assistant: Alice Kavanagh Ellis
Movement Director: Liv Lockwood
1st AC: George Beattie
2nd AC: Patrycja Cygan
2nd AC: Saskia Dixie
Trainee: Thomas D Wood
Grip: Paul Mammonne
BTS: Jordan Curtis Hughes
Gaffer: Matt Moran
Spark: Harry Burner
Live Tech: Lewis Morgan
Styling Assistant: Nelima Odhiambo
Styling Assistant: Samuel Borg
Styling Assistant: Armaghan Hallajian
Styling Assistant: Rafaela Roncete
Makeup Assistant: Margherita Fabbro
Makeup Assistant: Wakabayashi Chiharu
Assistant Hair Stylist: Vimal Chavda
Set Assistant: Kiara Gourlay
Set Assistant: Eleanor Beale
Runner: Jack Townsend
Runner: Keaton Williams
Runner/Driver: Finlay George
Animal Handler: Adrian Thomas
Location Manager: Calum Chisolm
Marshal: Sebastian Egan
Marshal: Reena Bhattacharjee
Stills Camera Assistant: Stephen Lwyn Smith
1st Lighting Assistant: Sinclair Jaspar
2nd Assistant: Joe Petini
Studio Assistant: Oak Mcmahon
Film: Kodak
Camera Kit: Panavision London
Lighting Kit: Pro Lighting
The 1975 and Ben Ditto have curated an online exhibition of 14 artists responding to tracks from ‘NOACF’.
15 Lu Yang responds to ‘Playing On My Mind’.
Lu Yang’s commission for The 1975 is performed in the virtual world by his nonbinary digital alter-ego Doku, whom he’s constructed using the latest in 3D scanning, motion capture and digital modelling technology. 50 of his facial expressions have been recreated from ultra-high quality scans, while Doku’s pop choreography was performed by a dancer turned motion-capture puppeteer. His sneakers are glowing neon. His bare torso is lit up with incandescent circuitry. His hands leave trails of violet effervescence in the air.
“In the virtual world,” says Yang, “I was able to do things such as choosing my own gender-neutral body and creating an appearance that reflects my own sense of beauty, which are not possible in real life. I consider Doku as my digital reincarnation. He is me but someone else at the same time. Just like the Buddhist concept of alayavijnana [storehouse consciousness], he represents a stream of consciousness which lingers in different worlds and different selves.”
Unleashed from the constraints of having a physical body, Doku is free to dive into the mysteries of the universe and try to establish a greater sense of his own identity. “On a planet where time and space no longer limit our minds,” says Yang, “to live is to create and explore. Emptiness and loneliness become the ultimate romance.”
He shows us how our shared virtual world, the world of digital creation and imagination, the world in which you’re watching his film, is not so different from the planet without time and space of his imagination: it’s a creative place where we can play with our identities and explore ourselves, our many parallel selves, and prepare those selves for new dimensions and universes. A whole new cosmos of infinite possibility stretches before us.
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13 Jacolby Satterwhite responds to ‘Having No Head’
“Proceeding with my studio practice amidst a massive civil unrest and pandemic is a challenge that has reset my vision and intentions tremendously. After visiting and recording a few protests in Brooklyn, the only thing I could execute at a time like this is a reimagined safe space and a tribute to Breonna Taylor. This digital memorial can be seen in my video for The 1975’s song ‘Having No Head’. The short animation film is an alternative universe and recreational park where post-human Black femme bots have superior autonomy and immunity in a natural landscape. The other figures wearing gold hazmat suits are headless and lack immunity. Lately, I’ve shifted my interest to modelling recreational park landscapes in response to my research into Manet’s painting ‘Luncheon in the Grass’ (1862–63). The painting is considered the start of modernism and was controversial for depicting a female nude as the bourgeoisie and non-divine. Because 2020 is a major global paradigm shift, I feel like we are finally entering a new collective historical movement and theoretical shift as drastic as the dawn of early modernism. Therefore, digitally reimagining and reanimating ‘Luncheon In the Grass’ has become my main motif for pieces like ‘Having No Head’ and other projects I’m currently producing. A gesture that welcomes the new movement.”
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12 Mia Kerin responds to ‘Roadkill’
Mia Kerin’s film tells the story of a lonely cowgirl who wakes from dreaming about a fantasy princess and then embarks on an IRL journey to find her. Kerin, playing the cowgirl, sets out across the vast American wilderness on a slapstick road trip of desire and self-discovery.
She first heard the song after 20 days locked down in her apartment. “It seems to be somewhat about longing for someone,” she says. “I had so much time to build up my fantasies and I spent a fair amount of that watching porn, fetish videos, and talking about sex with my friends. I expected after 20 days of isolation to have some kind of explosive reaction to other people, but unexpectedly I’ve only ended up enjoying being by myself even more. It makes me happy.”
In ‘Roadkill’, Matty Healy sings, “You, I’ve been waiting for you/ My whole life, waiting for you/ I’ve been waiting for you.” But what if the one you’ve been pining for isn’t who you thought they were?
At the end of her trip, cowgirl Kerin lassos her object of desire, but things don’t play out quite how she’d hoped. Sometimes you find that person you’ve been looking for and they smash eggs in your hair, they humiliate you. The world has a dark sense of humour like that.
“It’s humiliating to expect a lot out of anyone and not get it,” she says. “But it’s also relaxing to have absolutely no control over others and take the backseat. I can’t tell you what’s happening in my life but having a bunch of eggs smashed on my head helped me understand a recent experience all for the better. And to put it simply, I just love getting messy.”
Humiliated, slumped in a messy heap at the cruel princess’s feet, she’s left to fantasize forever after. If you go on a long journey, you never know what you’ll find along the way; and the greatest parts of a journey are often when you’re alone with your fantasies, with time to explore them in depth.
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VFX Joey Tuzzolino
Production Assistant Claire McClusky
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11 Joey Holder responds to ‘Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied’
Words become affirmations become magical symbols become art in Joey Holder’s occultist response to ‘Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied’. Holder has been reading ‘The Book of Pleasure: Psychology of Ecstasy’ (1913) by Austin Osman Spare, who’s commonly regarded as the first “chaos magician”, and in this film she takes his century-old technique of sigil-making and puts it to use. To begin, Holder broke the song down into eight verses and, using Spare’s words and methods, abstracted positive affirmations from them which she scattered throughout the film:
“Life is a search for your truth,
Sexual sorcery,
Returns and unites,
Free at any time,
Revealed by all systems,
Forget dependence,
Somewhere unlearnt,
What you wish to believe can be true.”
Next, Holder turned these eight lines into eight symbols using Spare’s sigil-making technique. Again, these symbols are scattered throughout the film, often layered over footage of sacred diagrams and twisting, squirming eels, snakes and nematodes that seem to be forming the shapes of the writhing symbols themselves.
Lastly, she’s also added a moon to the composition, referencing the eight phases of the moon and the lunar cycle that’s so important for chaos magic and the timing of spells.
Her film reminds us of the central role music played in old pagan ceremonies and rituals, while also showing us the way forwards to new kinds of pleasure. Spare’s ‘Book of Pleasure’ insists that everyone is able to create their own magical system to enact change, and this is also what The 1975 want to do: to change themselves, and us, and the world with their music. Ultimately, Holder’s piece shows us that music is a kind of magic itself; and that, to quote her eighth affirmation, “What you wish to believe can be true.”
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10 Weirdcore responds to ‘Bagsy Not In Net’
Weirdcore’s film is a tale of two star-crossed lovers. It begins with two astronauts floating in space, “drifting in and out of the screen trying to reach each other,” he says. “Then once the beat kicks in it all starts turning into patterns; and then reverts to deep space when the beat stops and loops back to start.”
Study anything for long enough and patterns begin to emerge. In Weirdcore’s hands, the whole universe is a pattern: images of astronauts and other interstellar bodies – asteroids, spacecraft, Earth, the planets, the Milky Way – are repeated over and again in dancing, rhythmic, shifting and intricate patterns. Space, his piece suggests, is a great cosmic dance of planets waltzing around one another.
In response to ‘Bagsy Not In Net’ he’s made an animated collage that shifts and remakes itself; a kaleidoscopic planetarium which was choreographed in advance and then performed live on his desktop to the song and recorded on his screen. While locked down at home, Weirdcore was dreaming of lovers in space.
“Leaving you here,” sings The 1975’s Matty Healy, “is the thing that I fear so I fight it.”
Both astronauts try to come closer throughout the song, to join the thousand-mile-high club, or maybe just to feel the intimacy of touch, but can’t.
Over Matty’s repeated refrain of “Do you wanna leave at the same time?” they do, in the end, leave at the same time, but not together; both drift off into the void and disappear into the blackness, into the night, as lovers often do.
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09 Sondra Perry responds to ‘What Should I Say’
For ‘What Should I Say’, Sondra Perry has constructed a Black 3D avatar and a blue-screen space in which to fracture his identity into pieces. The avatar is replicated eight times, and each of those eight puppets are made to perform different actions alongside one another: he jogs, he struts, he sashays, he ambles, he tiptoes, he retches with disgust. He runs a whole gamut of emotions for the duration of the song, and many different sides of him are presented to the world simultaneously. Characters, Perry shows us, are contradictory and complex.
Her piece explores how we all perform different roles, how easily identities can be appropriated – particularly in today’s lawless digital spaces – and how one person’s image can be cast into other people’s narratives whether they like it or not. It asks questions expanding on the song’s lyrical themes of transformation, redemption, and the feeling of being obliged to explain oneself:
“They’re calling out your name
Must have been something you
Changed
They’re calling out your name
What should I say?”
In this film, as in previous films, Perry uses Rosco Chroma Key Blue as a background and an environment; an empty stage of possibility on which anything can take place and anything can be said. She has described the deep Chroma Key Blue void as a place in which time flows in every direction and a story can go down many separate paths:
“The space of post-production being the space where the thing either has yet to happen, or it has, and everything has happened. … It’s like we have the obligation to create the images ourselves, so what are you going to do with that opportunity or responsibility and that space of the ‘post’?”
We can all ask ourselves this, every time we make an image. What should we do? How should we act? What do we want to change? What should we say?
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08 Alice Bucknell responds to ‘I Think There’s Something You Should Know’
“I wanted to play around with this idea of the secret, as referenced by the title, and the feeling of suspense that the track produces, scaling both up to a world-making capacity,” explains artist and writer Alice Bucknell. “Some of the album’s themes include technology, anxiety and ecological destruction, and I was thinking about these within the framework of an architectural utopia. The overarching idea, or set of ideas really, framing this project was an interest in technological utopias and the inevitable failure of these ambitions.”
Her film flies us to a ringed planet on which she’s constructed 3D models of three sci-fi cities, one for each of the song’s different sections: the first is a postmodern seastead that brings to mind the Las Vegas Strip. The second, and most contemporary, is a high-tech wellness metropolis which mixes Tokyo signage, SoulCycle classes and tropical foliage; “Decked out in neon lights and synthetic palm trees,” says Bucknell, “it’s the unfortunate byproduct of some Instagram algorithm, like Blade Runner meets Miami Beach.” The third, in which ‘I Think There’s Something You Should Know’ reaches its euphoric climax, is a glowing pioneer town out in the desert. All are rendered in a neon club aesthetic that matches the track’s up-tempo house feel and crisp, spacious production.
“What drew me to this track in particular,” says Bucknell, “is the loosening of what’s perceived as truth, or reality, through the forces of fantasy and desire. That’s what led me to thinking about this planet as a sort of glitch or technological error that ultimately deletes itself at the end of the video.”
In the last few frames the planet glitches then disappears. It leaves us wondering: Were these cities just mirages? Are utopias even possible, in the real or virtual worlds, or will they always conceal a hidden darkness?
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07 Ai-Da responds to ‘Yeah I Know’
Ai-Da, the world’s first humanoid AI robot artist, is capable of drawing people from life using her robotic eyes and hands. For this piece however, she’s been set a more challenging task: to sketch out an impression of consciousness.
Stood in her studio in Oxford in a painting smock, with ‘Yeah I Know’ playing on the stereo, she composes her abstract portrait in coloured paint pens. The result is a picture of knowing, of thinking, of having a mind, whether biological or artificial. Of consciousness itself.
Using her AI language model, she’s also written a poem that responds to singer Matty Healy’s lyrics. When he sings a line, her response flashes up on the screen in bright turquoise.
“Stop the tube/ Kick the head,” sings Matty.
“JUST FELT THE WORLD GO BY,” replies Ai-Da.
“Try your best,”
“HOW MUCH CAN,”
“Yeah I know,”
“I FEEL IT ON MY FLESH,” she says.
Do android poets dream of electric sheep? Ai-Da, who might have stepped right out from the pages of a Philip K. Dick novel, is a robot but writes that she dreams of feeling, of having flesh and blood.
“Time feels like it’s changed/ I don’t feel the same,” sings an autotuned, robotic-sounding Matty in the chorus.
“YOU KNOW WHAT TIME LOOKS LIKE TO YOU,” she responds.
Over the second chorus she adds, “AND YOU KNOW WHAT TIME FEELS LIKE TO ME.”
While the outro plays she mouths along, holding her palms up to the heavens. Ai-Da dreams of experiencing time for herself. Perhaps she dreams of dying also; of the mortality that makes you and I human. Perhaps she dreams of having a consciousness like ours, and the sorts of dreams that we have.
Yeah I know, we know, but what does Ai-Da really know? How could an AI know what consciousness is or what it looks like? Human neuroscientists and philosophers haven’t yet figured any of that out; but then, we always look to artists to show us the unknown and difficult to imagine.
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Design & Filming — Christian Johnstone
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06 Rindon Johnson responds to ‘Don’t Worry’
Like a couple other artists in this exhibition, Rindon Johnson was inspired by ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ to produce a vision of utopia. “In almost all my work,” he says, “I like to make sure that if I’m animating a different type of reality, it speaks to the possibility of a different state of being and relation. So I wanted to set this film in a permaculture city; one that lives harmoniously with the earth and encourages the slow stillness of being in direct dialogue with one’s natural surroundings.”
In Johnson’s computer-generated city of tomorrow, the sidewalks are made of packed earth and orchards grow on the street providing healthy food for all. Clean energy come from wind turbines and solar panels on the roofs. It’s a greener, more socialist vision of urban society, but also a charming and sexy one.
The film’s narrative came to Johnson organically upon hearing the song for the first time, he says: “I closed my eyes and sort of felt the movement of a really gentle dance and thought it might be a nice way to speak towards that sensation. To think about different forms of closeness. I also didn’t want to do anything too over the top because the song demands something quiet and straightforward; a kind of direct address to another person.”
His character takes a walk through the neighbourhood one evening, listening to the uplifting piano ballad ‘Don’t Worry’, and looking up at a window, happens to catch somebody dancing on their own. The two strangers share a moment of intimacy together through the window. It’s a moment of empathy and perhaps erotic frisson; a socially distanced romance.
During this time of crises, particularly in urban centres and in the United States, many of us have been thinking about how modern cities and societies can be improved; and Johnson has not only been dreaming of what these cities could look like, but also of the kinds of lives we might live within them.
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Animation by Pariah Interactive
Motion capture data used in this work were obtained from http://dancedb.cs.ucy.ac.cy, the Dance Motion Capture Database of the University of Cyprus.
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05 Frederick Paxton responds to ‘Shiny Collarbone’
Filmmaker and artist Frederick Paxton takes us on a journey into an unknown land. We begin on a mysterious train ride over a long bridge. A solitary figure in white falls through the darkness. At first it’s unclear where we are but as we move through the layers, through anonymous suburbs, it becomes apparent we’re in North Korea, at the Arirang Mass Games: a spectacular gymnastics and artistic festival held in Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang most years.
Paxton is interested in finding moments and places that reveal our shared humanity, our hidden euphoria. This is what he hears in ‘Shiny Collarbone’, in the looping ragga vocal (“Mash up the place/ Free up the order”) and the climbing synth.
“It has a strength to it, a weight to it, but there’s a euphoria hidden under that,” he says. “And that was also my takeaway from my brief experience in North Korea: you can subject humans to any sort of control and pain and suffering; but there’s always this human reality, a child being a child, or someone smiling, hidden underneath that.”
North Korea’s Mass Games are a visual representation of the country’s ideal of the collective whole. However, after filming their choreographed performances on his slow-motion camera and watching the slowed-down footage, Paxton found that the individuals in the group were revealed, that their characters became more apparent as time was slowed down and his attention focused in on them. Now, set to the music of this club track, the children in their sequined costumes with their pompoms, the undulating dancers carrying the giant Earth through the stadium and the parading soldiers show us how the human spirit is always present; how technology can reveal it, and how there’s beauty everywhere.
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Edited by Andrew Cross at Assembly Rooms
Director represented by Ella Giradot at Academy Films
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04 Agusta Yr responds to ‘Then Because She Goes’.
Agusta Yr’s art film begins with a downbeat girl in a black hoody sitting at home watching the video for ‘Then Because She Goes’; not the real video, but the video for ‘Then Because She Goes’ inside the real video for ‘Then Because She Goes’. This film is meta from the beginning, and this is only one of its doublings and mirror images.
In the video within the video, a blonde dances wavily on a hillside of swaying blue flowers.
“I wish I was as bad as her,” thinks the girl on the sofa.
She looks the blonde up on Instagram and, in a Kafkaesque turn, her phone grows larger than her and boxes her, knocks her over.
“We all know how toxic social media is but we fail to consider it a majority of the time,” says Yr. “We compare ourselves to what we see, like the fabulous life of an Insta baddie or a millionaire on a yacht. We get so caught up in this we fail to see who we actually are a lot of the time, we get lost in a whirlpool of seeing ourselves through others—we forget to utilize our own eyes.”
From her perspective, ‘Then Because She Goes’ is reimagined as a ballad of self-realization and female empowerment. The story she writes for it is a romance with a twist: our hero falls into another dimension, a magical green valley, where she encounters the confident, glamorous blonde she’s fallen in love with; only to discover they were the same person all along.
“‘Then Because She Goes’ is both sombre and hopeful,” says Yr. “The hero goes through a transformation when she learns to see the baddie inside her. It’s a love story with oneself. A mixture of lightness and darkness; where the main character ends up kissing herself.”
Taking the artistic tradition of the self-portrait one step further, she shows how we all contain multitudes, and how we’re all performing a variety of confusing, and often contradictory, roles in the metaverse.
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03 Christopher MacInnes responds to ‘Streaming’.
From its opening frame of found My Little Pony fan art, Christopher MacInnes’s video for ‘Streaming’ takes us on a hypnotic journey through the backwaters of the net: imageboards like 4chan (United States), 2ch.hk and Dobrochan (Russia), Komica (Taiwan) and Hispachan (Latin America) that have grown increasingly influential on mainstream culture.
His film navigates this new visual language by using a web-scraper and a pixel diver, both of which he developed himself, to clandestinely collect images from these boards and animate them in space. “Streaming,” he says, “is us interfacing with the network body, a direct patch to cooled server racks in darkened data centres, to machine space. In this sense, streaming is a sublime (in the Latin sense of sub, “up to”, liminis, “a threshold”) activity, taking us to the edge of where human space ends and machine space begins. The web-scrapers are performing ‘streaming’ in a similar way, posing as a counterfeit human (you have to write them to appear like genuine, web-browsing humans, or risk getting blocked) in order to enter that threshold space and drift along its surface.”
Having stream-scraped the boards of images, MacInnes used his bespoke pixel diver to explore what he’d found. Over a twinkling piano and synth intro, we go diving through a sea of pixels, a dizzying procession of deconstructed images that accelerates towards the song’s droning crescendo before releasing us into a blissful slow drift.
By fragmenting these images, he explains, he “takes them away from being representational forms and towards an infrastructural form that the viewer must pick their way through. This facilitates an immersion in the deranged pre-consciousness that underpins the infrastructures of contemporary culture.”
In MacInnes’s hands, the collective unconscious of today’s imageboards becomes a dissociative space we can fly through. Kitschy throwaway images are remade as great cosmic flightpaths, and we’re shown just how much depth these flattened pixelated images and warm, euphoric synth tones can conceal.
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02 Demon Sanctuary responds to ‘The End’.
Robobotanist and AI artist Demon Sanctuary’s (David Atlas) latest piece is a poetic, introspective interpretation of the soaring orchestral track ‘The End’. “Can we create self-sustaining machines?” wonders Atlas. “First we must make ourselves self-sustaining. To me this song touches heavily on this. It has a hopeful hopelessness about it.”
His film is made using a form of AI known as a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN, comprised of two neural networks competing against each other and learning to generate new data from a training set. Atlas has trained his GAN on a visual storytelling dataset full of photographs of our natural world, resulting in these computer-generated morphing forms that look realistic but also a little off; that have an otherworldly uncanniness about them. “Essentially,” Atlas says, he’s “trying to trick a GAN into being creative.”
The resulting film is an orgy of conditional forms: of budding shapes bursting forth, hyperreal textures melting in and out of the screen and decomposing silhouettes in Earthy tones. As the song nears its crescendo, the screen splits in two and flowers bloom on both sides:
“Two flowers dance together but can never really meet after a storm; perhaps during which they had touched for a number of brief, almost violent moments.”
Atlas has designed an artificially conscious artist and taught it to dream up new lifeforms. To the sound of swelling strings, he shows us machine-made visions of things no person has ever seen before.
Furthermore, Atlas has also trained his GAN on a dataset of images of sea slugs and generated a suite of hyperbolic renderings of 3D “Ganflowers”, which he’s combined into a quadruped exclusively for The 1975: this can be viewed as a 3D object, and downloaded for 3D printing, on the exhibition microsite that opens on 6th June, 2020.
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01 Most Dismal Swamp responds to ‘Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)’.
In response to ‘Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)’, Most Dismal Swamp (MDS) has worked with a group of artists to build a virtual environment and film a narrative within it. MDS began by “situating the voice in the song that seemed to be stuck in a moment, thinking of another time and even another timeline. The old and despondent teddy bear is the character I decided would inhabit this space—lost in reverie and nightmare, somewhere between nostalgia and anxiety.”
So tonight lead singer Matty Healy becomes a bear; a bear in his little bedroom that sings of an unnamed pain; a bear that wishes he was your boy.
MDS is a collective art project by Dane Sutherland, who describes it as a “mixed-reality biome”, amongst many other things: “ a multi-scalar mystic fiction … a curatorial MMORPG … a planetary weirding studio.” He’s interested in world-building and likes to collaborate with other artists on composite mixed realities like this one.
Inspired by the album’s exploration of technology, hope and anxiety, MDS decided to build a gamer’s bedroom with the GVN908 collective. In this bedroom lives a despondent, lovestruck teddy bear, modelled by Hannah Rose Stewart. He has a view of the world outside, of an expansive meadow through a distorting baroque window, and also a view of the world inside, through his computer screen, on which an animation by Tissue Hunter and 3D model by Olia Svetlanova become bad thoughts that haunt him; cursed images that leak out into his room, and maybe also into yours.
The film, MDS hopes, has the same dreamlike quality as the song it accompanies: “A bittersweet dream where you’d get lost, then have that feeling amplified by the shock of your actual reality when the dream ends.”
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Directed by Most Dismal Swamp
UE development and filming by GVN908
Character design (teddy) by Hannah Rose Stewart
Character design (winged creature) by Olia Svetlanova
2D animations by Tissue Hunter
Editing and storyboards by Most Dismal Swamp
VFX by Samuel Capps
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Videos are featured in this order: 1. 'Give Yourself A Try' - 2. 'TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME' - 3. 'Love It If We Made It' - 4. 'Sincerity Is Scary' - 5. 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You).
WARNING: The video to 'Love It If We Made It' may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Director: James Barnes
DP: Keith Gubbins
Producer: Ed Watson, Antonio Cacciavillani, Nick Calafato
Editor: Anthony Bairstow
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Taken from The 1975 Video Breakdown (coming soon!), Matty reveals his favourite shot from the 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' official music video.
Coming soon to The 1975's channel, Matty goes in-depth on all their official music videos from their 2018 album ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’.
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Taken from The 1975 Video Breakdown, Matty chats about how Easter eggs in their music videos are there to make you feel personally addressed.
Coming soon to The 1975's channel, Matty goes in-depth on all their official music videos from their 2018 album ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’.
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The 1975 - Sincerity Is Scary (Live from The BRITs 2019)
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The new album from The 1975 ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ is Out Now - https://The1975.lnk.to/NOACFID
Creative Direction / Concept: Ben Ditto
Artwork / Concept: Jon Emmony
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The 1975 - It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) | (Official Video)
Directed by Warren Fu
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The 1975 - Sincerity Is Scary (Official Video)
Written by Matthew Healy
Directed by Warren Fu
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The new album from The 1975 ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’ is Out Now - https://The1975.lnk.to/NOACFID
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