Executive Producer

Samm Henshaw

Jim Pilling directs a marvellous, timeless black and white visual for Samm Henshaw’s emotive Joy.Shot across stunning locations in the Peak District on 16mm by DoP Rik Burnell, it's the fourth instalment of the series of films created by&nbsp;Pilling and Henshaw - and all shot by Burnell -&nbsp;in association with Henshaw's latest album Untidy Soul, featuring Henshaw as his alter-ego 'Sonny'.From the first episode, <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/05/20/samm-henshaw-still-broke-jim-pilling/71012" target="_blank">Still Broke</a>, Sonny's story&nbsp;has moved backwards chronologically. But for&nbsp;Joy, we join him in the present day. And he is on an&nbsp;introspective journey, as he’s driven through some stunning Derbyshire scenery, before leaving his car to&nbsp;continue his journey alone.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>There’s a lot of subtext there for people to interpret.</blockquote>"I&nbsp;wanted the video to feel timeless in the same way the sentiments in the track are," explains Pilling. "For me it was about creating frames full of feeling and giving them space to breathe to let the viewer spend some time in each moment."There’s a lot of subtext there for people to interpret - in what we see and what we don’t see - and I think this slow place&nbsp;lets that play out in the minds of the viewer as they watch it. Samm’s a great storyteller, and this track is a really good example of that. So it was an ideal starting point to develop the visual from.”

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Charlie Morris

Lily Mcmurray

Jim Pilling

Francesca Di Muro

Vidsett

Jordan Clarke

Rik Burnell

Daniel Castro Garcia

Dan Shaw

Chris McDonough

Nick Coleman

Connor Dunlop

Jennifer Howson

Alex Gregory

No.8

Soul

Samm Henshaw 'Joy' by Jim Pilling

Samm-Henshaw--'Joy'-by-Jim-Pilling

Director Jim Pilling is back with another episode from the&nbsp;Untidy Soul series for Samm Henshaw. Following on from <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/05/20/samm-henshaw-still-broke-jim-pilling/71012" target="_blank">Still Broke</a> and <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/07/26/samm-henshaw-grow-jim-pilling/72053" target="_blank">Grow</a>&nbsp;- which was set two years before Still Broke -&nbsp;the video for latest single Chicken Wings takes place two years further back still, when Samm's character Sonny is working at his job in Henny's Wings, an&nbsp;American-style diner owned by a hot-headed boss, Henny - who is also played by Henshaw.As with&nbsp;the previous instalments, the video has a distinctive&nbsp;look and feel that comes from the collaboration between the director and artist, and the 16mm cinematography by DoP Rik Burnell. It's the ideal framing for Pilling's oddball, slightly surreal comedy.And Henshaw is great again as the loveable everyman Sonny. He's struggling to get his music heard, but suffering various indignities on the way, with apparently marginal control of his own fate - and irritated by the numerous loved-up couples coming to Henny's. But we also get a nod to where he is heading...

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CHEAT

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Awal

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Kodak

Samm Henshaw 'Chicken Wings' by Jim Pilling

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Jim Pilling captures the challenges of a relationship in this charmingly relatable video&nbsp;for&nbsp;Grow - the second in the series of accompanying visuals&nbsp;for Samm Henshaw's album Untidy Soul.Following the <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/05/20/samm-henshaw-still-broke-jim-pilling/71012">video&nbsp;for Still Broke</a>&nbsp;- featuring Henshaw as a very unhappy, lonely rich guy -&nbsp;the second chapter takes us back two years, exploring&nbsp;the new romance of Samm and Tiana Major9's characters Sonny and Selah, and the trials and tribulations that come with moving in together and living with each other does not always go to plan.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm by DoP Rik Burnell, the visual builds a slightly surreal comic world which begins when the couple visit a plant store to buy a plant for their new home, and encounter the world's most unhelpful shop owner. Tiana is offered a bonsai tree by a mysterious elderly shop assistant which comes to symbolise the health of their relationship.[imgtoken data:1]Co-written by Pilling and Henshaw, the video develops the slightly surreal comic tone of Still Broke, with the indie-urban sophistication of&nbsp;Spike Lee's early&nbsp;comedies. There is a&nbsp;combination of&nbsp;dialogue and subtitles to push forward the story of rising tensions between the characters, and Henshaw and Tiana are pitch-perfect in their roles as the couple unable to make a last step towards contentment.&nbsp;&nbsp;“In the track, Samm’s exploring the idea of having to work at a relationship, and it not always being easy for it to be good," explains&nbsp;Jim Pilling. "He and I built this world around the track, and the story goes to show that even some sage advice from a guy with a bonsai tree isn’t always enough to save a relationship.”

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Samm Henshaw 'Grow' by Jim Pilling

Samm-Henshaw--'Grow'-by-Jim-Pilling

Samm Henshaw is living in the lap of&nbsp;luxury in huge mansion, but also in a pit of sadness, in Jim Pilling's video for Still Broke.The first in a series of videos for Untidy Soul, Henshaw's upcoming debut album, Pilling establishes the off-kilter, quietly comic premise from the start, as Henshaw stares out from his gigantic gilded cage before resuming his chores of ironing fifty quid notes.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm by DoP Rik Burnell, a series of slow zooms and stylised camerawork creates this amusing disconnect between&nbsp;remarkable&nbsp;wealth and opulence with Henshaw's&nbsp;abject dejection and lack of fulfillment. It all comes to a head when he receives a message&nbsp;from an visitor, to shake up him from his misery.With its playfulness and visual style - and the promise of Samm venturing out into the world in the next episode&nbsp;- this one sets up the Untidy Soul series very nicely indeed.[imgtoken data:1]

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