NAO 'Bad Blood' by Ian Pons Jewell
Cat Velez - 19th Nov 2015
Ian Pons Jewell has directed this striking video for London-based singer NAO's Bad Blood (co-written by him and his producer Dobi Manolova) which inhabits a gritty, industrial building and follows the progress of a statuesque and completely nude woman (model Adja Kaba) with some mystifying supernatural powers.
Walking around the ruined factory, she encounters characters that look completely out of place - such as three mourners looking over an open casket - and then makes branches burst forth from their mouth and eyes.
Filmed in Manolova's native Bulgaria, and beautifully shot by Ben Fordesman, like much of Ian Pons Jewell's work, things are left entirely open to interpretation. We may not know who this beautiful yet fearsome woman is – life? death? Mother Nature herself? – but once seen, she's hard to forget...
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Cat Velez - 19th Nov 2015
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Ian Pons Jewell
- Producer
- Dobi Manolova
- Line Producer
- Alexander Kenanov
- Production Company
- F
- Production Company
- B2Y Productions
- Production Manager
- Galabena Botova
- 1st AD
- Yana Viktorova
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Ben Fordesman
- 1st AC
- Kaloyan Nedelchev
- 2nd AC
- Simona Ravalieva
- Steadicam
- Kiril Valchanov
Wardrobe
- Stylist
- Goranov Tsvetomir
- Hair & Make-up
- Sofi Hvarleva
Casting
- Casting director
- Nina Boyanova
Editorial
- Editor
- Gaia Borretti
Grading
- Colourist
- Luke Morrison
- Colour Producer
- Samantha Letzler
- Colour grade company
- The Mill
VFX
- VFX
- Four Walls
Commission
- Commissioner
- Elizabeth Doonan
Misc
- Writer
- Dobi Manolova
- Writer
- Ian Pons Jewell
- Flame
- Andy Brown
- 3D Artist
- Dave Child
- VFX Producer
- Glen Percival
- Additional VFX
- Dimitar Itskov
- Location Manager
- Denitza Katzarska
- Art Direction
- Severina Stoyanova
- Set Dresser
- Yordan Dimitrov
- Woman
- Adja Kaba
Other credits
Library Man
Orlin Hristov
Lady in White
Yavora Georgieva
Man 1
Georgi Georgiev
Man 2
Tervel Nestov
Man 3
Veselin Beremliiski
Fork Man
Daniel Rashev
Fork Man's Wife
Aleksandra Spasova
Special Thanks
Yariv Lerner and Nu Boyana Studios, Galabena Botova and Alexander Kenanov @ B2Y, Stela Pavlova and Angel Apostolski @ Push Pull, Svetoslav Petrov @ Boyscout, Yo Vo, Mathieu Brelière, Allie Avital Tsypin, Ninian Doff
Cat Velez - 19th Nov 2015