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Luke Hardisty

Singer-songwriter MAGUIRE's normal day takes an extraordinary turn in this stirring video for her track Come Down.Taken from her second EP Fantaisies, Come Down asks&nbsp;if it is possible to find balance and stability amidst the constant cycle of substance-fuelled escapism. “In a time when it is so easy to turn to altered states of consciousness to enhance the banal, this song questions whether it is in fact in the apparently ordinary everyday that we can access the beyond," MAGUIRE has explained.In the video, directed by her sister Anna Maguire, the artist takes a trip to the coast. At this point a measured portrait of MAGUIRE in the everyday turns into something transcendent, and literally uplifting, when she advances to the edge of a cliff. It's a splendid moment, handling with deftness by Anna Maguire and her team, which makes this video stand out as a notable work from both artist and director.[imgtoken data:1]ANNA MAGUIRE:“The video for Come Down&nbsp;tries to echo the question that MAGUIRE asks in the song: ‘will you catch me…?’ This question is one we should be asking of each other, of our surroundings and of ourselves. However this feels harder and harder to do as we grow older."Trusting that we will be caught is vital for jumping, transcending and going further than we think we can. How do we find the courage to trust? To jump?”

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Anna Maguire

Lucy Benson-Brown

LBB Productions

Joe Ransom

Lloyd Cook

Jack Mather

Chiara Armentano

Kaitlyn Battistelli

Ethos Studio

Brittany Carson

Genesis Rivas

Robert Gittings

Echo Lake Management

Sevenfoursevensix Recordings

Benjamin Eeley

Singer-songwriter

MAGUIRE 'Come Down' by Anna Maguire

MAGUIRE - Come Down [Official Video]

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare&#39;s death, the British Council are releasing a film every month depicting a new interpretation of a scene from a play by the immortal Bard. The latest in the Shakespeare Lives series is this&nbsp;strikingly visual&nbsp;adaptation of a scene from Julius Caesar by&nbsp;Pedro Martin-Calero.&nbsp;Mark Stanley (Game Of Thrones, Dickensian) delivers Brutus&#39;s speech justifying the imminent assassination&nbsp;of Caesar to his fellow senators, in a scenario which combines a contemporary&nbsp;setting with elements of surrealism. And with his speech intercut with armed soldiers heading to eliminate Caesar, the&nbsp;ominous&nbsp;sense of a coup d&#39;etat unfolding is intensified by the fact this was filmed in the actual corridors of power.Due to the client and the nature of the campaign, Martin-Calero and crew had access to locations in the Treasury and the Foreign Office, where they filmed for two days.&nbsp;They certainly make good use of them, in a piece which is an object lesson on how the visual language associated with music videos can help bring the work of Shakespeare to a new audience. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

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