Porcelain Raft 'The Way Out' by Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence says it took weeks of pestering to shoot his video for Porcelain Raft's The Way Out at the Mademoiselle Folie Bergere strip club in his hometown of Buffalo, NY. It was worth it.

It nails the creepy atmosphere of a place where it's always night, even in the middle of the day, when there is just one punter and one poledancer in the whole place. Michael achieved the video in a single moving shot, and in a five-hour window before the club got back to real business. Time enough to tell an evolving narrative where some bad stuff happens...

MICHAEL LAWRENCE

"The first time I heard the track, immediately this image came to my mind of this desolate, lost, vacant place.

"Growing up in Buffalo, there are so many empty lots, small businesses that you don’t know are in operation or just a mere shell of what they used to be. I was curious who might work at one of these places, what kind of dodgy operation might be going on.

"These two characters needed to be isolated in this fringe world. They’re alone and it’s equally sad for both of them".