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Hezen 'The Girl You Want' by Alice Seabright

Cat Velez - 9th May 2016

London-based French producer and songwriter Sara Hezen has received this thought-provoking visual treatment for her song The Girl You Want.

Directed by Alice Seabright, it's quite the unsettling and nightmarish clip, and sees the singer on an operating table in a blacked-out room. She is vulnerable - with sealed eyes and a gaping abdomen - but more worrying still is her surgeon, who stops mid-operation for some wistful and sensuous dancing before contemplating her subject...

ALICE SEABRIGHT: 

"Hezen's song The Girl You Want is about the expectations placed on women - by others and themselves - as objects of desire. The film explores the idea of watching and being watched, and how it changes us. How we construct a self to present, and how the self behind the mask can get lost. The song and Hezen's vision immediately struck a chord with me. They had a dreamlike quality - and in fact, the video's narrative came to Hezen in a dream. The Girl You Want spoke to me without delivering any clear answers or messages. I found it beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

"My aim was to recreate this dreamlike quality in the film. I looked to David Lynch and David Cronenberg for inspiration, and created a world that felt haunting and surreal - from a fantasy, a dream or a nightmare. Crucial to achieving this, was the work of the team - in particular, Catherine Goldschmidt's beautiful cinematography, Carmen Mueck's evocative set and costume design, and Suzi Battersby's lifelike and creepy prosthetics. The performance of Martine Eisenfisz was also key. She conveyed so much sadness and emotion, whilst dancing so beautifully."

Cat Velez - 9th May 2016

Tags

  • Dance
  • Director's notes
  • New Director
  • Surreal
  • Synth
  • Indie, singer-songwriter
  • Operation
  • Surgery
  • Nightmare
  • Nightmarish
  • Lynch

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Alice Seabright
Producer
Manon Ardisson
1st AD
Conor O'Callaghan

Camera

Director of Photography
Catherine Goldschmidt
Focus Puller

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Junior Agyeman-Owusu
Grip
Marina Alberro

Art

Production designer
Carmen Mueck

Wardrobe

Costume designer
Carmen Mueck
Make-up
Kirri-Lorrel Badouille-Carter
Make-up
Kesha K South

Editorial

Editor
Alice Seabright

Grading

Colourist
Jonny Tully

Misc

Prosthetics
Suzi Battersby
2nd AD
Joel Court
Clapper Loader
Katy Ruffy
Spark
Ben Millar Cole
Spark
Connor Adam
Online
Jonny Tully

Cat Velez - 9th May 2016

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