Director of Photography

Keidrych Wasley

After two previous collaborations with Ali John Meredith-Lacey, aka Novo Amor, directing duo&nbsp;Sil Van Der Woerd &amp; Jorik Dozy have now completed a stunning double music video-short film for the Welsh artist, shot in Mongolia&nbsp;among&nbsp;the country&#39;s dwindling nomadic community of reindeer herders, The Tsaatan - now existentially threatened by the impact of climate change.&nbsp;[vidtoken data:0]The story, told with outstanding filmmaking skill by Sil and Jorik - who recently signed to Park Village for UK representation -&nbsp;follows a miner&#39;s desperate attempt to keep his daughter alive, by taking her out of the smoke-choked city of Ulaanbaater,&nbsp;to find a shamen who can save her. That journey leads to them both into the wilderness, becoming lost, and then being saved by a reindeer-riding member of The Tsaatan.As the first part of the story, for Sleepless, ends with a sense of hope, Van Der Woerd and Dozy tackle the full extent of the environmental disaster unfolding in Mongolia, and particularly for the Tsaatan,&nbsp;in the second part. In Repeat Until Death, the father and daughter discover that there is no hiding place&nbsp;from the effects of&nbsp;air pollution and climate change, even in the uncharted wilderness, as the Tsaatan and their animals suffer from the changing habitat.[vidtoken data:1]For all the beauty of how this is put together, the wonderful drone-shot landscapes throughout the whole piece, this is a&nbsp;sobering, bleak warning of the natural and human cost of unchecked industrialization. It also forms part of a greater body of work, which deals with different different aspects of the same devastating issue: their video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/11/02/novo-amor-ed-tullett-terraform-jorik-dozy-sil-van-der-woerd/50299" target="_blank">Terraform</a>, shot in a sulphur volcano in Indonesia; then with <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/06/20/novo-amor-birthplace-sil-van-der-woerd-and-jorik-dozy/53703" target="_blank">Birthplace</a>, their extraordinary prop whale made of plastic bags and rubbish created for the completely underwater-shot video in Bali.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For this project, the Dutch directing duo spent 20 days in Mongolia, navigating extreme conditions. They travelled from the city of Ulaanbaatar and the Nalaikh coal mine, to the most Northern region of the country. Limited road infrastructure and the Tsaatan tribe&rsquo;s secluded location meant even their 4x4 jeep struggled to get the crew across bumpy dirt tracks for days at a time.Ulaanbaatar&rsquo;s intense pollution occurs in winter, when temperatures drop well below -35 degrees Celsius. With strong wind intensifying the cold, the crew could only be outside for a maximum of 15-minutes. This extreme weather presented challenges not only physically for the crew and cast, but also for the equipment. The team overcame issues with the drones such as signal loss and malfunctioning landing gear. All of the gear, which was touch-screen-only, had to be gradually acclimatised between internal and external settings, as they would immediately condense.But even with those extraordinary challenges, the resulting film is remarkable, poignant&nbsp;- and ultimately, properly terrifying.&nbsp;

Sil & Jorik

Jorik Dozy

Sil Van Der Woerd

Sean Lin

Nicholas Chin

Skaiste Kazragyte

Park Village

Dave Grinnell

New Frontier Pictures

Marisa Garner Associates

Alternative

Electronica

Novo Amor 'Sleepless' and 'Repeat Until Death' by Sil and Jorik - now signed to Park Village

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Novo Amor - Repeat Until Death (Chapter II)

A gasmasked punk on a jetski journeys through a dystopian sea landscape to rejoin with his friends at the towering Red Sands Forts, in Alexander Darby&#39;s video for Vessels&#39; Mobilise.The forts were&nbsp;built during the Second World War at the mouth of the Thames Estuary as part of a network of sea defences around Kent.&nbsp;Frankly, the Thames Estuary has never looked so exotic.

Alexander Darby

Joel Scott-Halkes

Osiko Films

Mike Radforth

Final Cut

Pete Oppersdorff

Independent

Russell Crank

PIAS

Vessels 'Mobilise' by Alexander Darby

Vessels-'Mobilise'-by-Alexander-Darby

Stylistically shot in black and white in a barren, timeless landscape, Tom Stoddart paints a dramatic picture of two rebels on the run in his promo for Norwegian artist Tooji Keshtkar.

Keidrych Wasley

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