Waking up lost and bemused in a strange place is probably not many people’s ideal situation. The man in Mike Lee Thomas’ video for Fossil Collective seems suitably confused by the ordeal – especially when he can’t quite place where he is. Beginning with some ambiguous under-sea footage, our man awakes in a forest and just when he can’t take it anymore, his chilly prison is replaced with another location, provoking a different reaction…

Director Mike has used some great locations and managed to shoot the promo in one day in minus 4 degrees Celsius in the north of England. Producer James Baxter sheds some light on the intriguing narrative: “The missteps and mistakes made in life come back to haunt our exhausted male as the classic story of realising what you had once is now gone plays out here. Combined with the paranoia of finding himself in an unexpected awakening, we follow a confused and desperate man as he slowly comes to terms with his situation before trying to regain some kind of control; despite the outcome not being his ideal scenario.”

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