Silent Devices ‘Una’ by Miles Bingham
Wednesday, 4. July 2012 - 1:30 pm
Miles Bingham’s delightful video for Silent Devices’ Una starts out in familiarly gritty Britfilm territory with a homeless old man searching out rubbish bins and skips for food and other people’s trash. But it becomes something else entirely – a scifi comedy fantasy – as his true mission becomes clear, to escape his earthly problems in spectacular fashion…
It’s Miles Bingham’s directing debut – he’s more usually occupied as an ad creative at JWT in London – after he was put in touch with Silent Devices through mutual friends. Both Miles and the band are from Leicester, and another Leicester native Lee Veasey produced the video, which was shot over two weekends in Hackney Wick and Watford. Chris Green plays the inventive hermit – and Silent Devices also put in a cameo appearance.
“The song totally led the idea,” Miles explains. “There’s a line that says ‘We all need a place to go’, so I used that as my brief. The track builds to a crescendo and feels quite filmic so I wanted my idea and the narrative to build in the same way.”
Silent Devices
Una
Track: Una by Silent Devices
Director: Miles Bingham
Producer: Lee Veasey
DOP: Tom Turley
Camera Assistant: Chai Rolfe
Editor: Lee Veasey
Post: Ed Poulson
Grade: Claire Cullen
