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Tove Lo 'Blue Lips' by Malia James

Promonews - 29th Oct 2018

In Malia James's short film that uses tracks from her album Blue Lips as the score, Tove Lo and her best friend (played by Ana Coto) head out of town for a weekend of hedonism, after the friend suffers a disappointment in the dating game.

With the tang of realism that comes from a combination of improvised dialogue through a series of beautifully shot scenes, the co-written script by James and Lo explores the pair's relationship "in a sexually fluid and post-feminist world", soundtracked by songs from the album.

MALIA JAMES:

"In the era of visual albums like Beyonce’s Lemonade and Sampha‘s Process, I wanted to make a narrative film that used the album as the score. Unlike a traditional narrative short, the film’s primary function was to showcase most or all of the album visually, so each scene was shaped around how we’d incorporate the track.

“Blue Lips explores the rich and complicated friendship between two women in a sexually fluid and post-feminist world. The film stars Tove Lo and features her album Blue Lips as the score."

Promonews - 29th Oct 2018

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Malia James
Producer
Jeff Kopchia
Production Company
Tiffany Suh
Production Company

Camera

Director of Photography
Sy Turnbull

Art

Production designer
Emma Rose Mead

Editorial

Editor
Chris Roebuck
Editing company
TenThree

Grading

Colourist
Kaitlyn Battistelli

Other credits

Writers

Malia James and Tove Lo

Executive Producers

Tove Lo, Nathan Scherrer, Laura Haber

Promonews - 29th Oct 2018

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