Vessels 'Are You Trending?' by Thomas Ralph
David Knight - 16th June 2016
Thomas Ralph creates an riveting, energetic, raw video for Leeds electronic outfit Vessels. With a reportage shooting style and an absorbing repetitive edit executed by Owen O'Sullivan, this focusses upon a boy and a girl - possibly lost souls - journeying across the streets of North London.
Shot on 16mm, Amira and iPhone, the video creates a complex visual collage that builds and repeats with the track, draws you in, and start to see the pair as symbiotically connected - even they never appear together until the very end.
THOMAS RALPH:
“The idea initially steamed from the pattern like structure of the song and the 90’s all-night rave culture Vessels are homaging. Our mission was to merge raw, out on the town ‘run and gun’ narrative shooting with a graphic, layered, edit-structure to match with the beat.
"Working closely with Owen, Editor at Marshall St, we worked backwards, breaking the rules and the pattern where we could to create a video that’s literally driven by the music.”
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Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Thomas Ralph
- Producer
- Ore Okonedo
- Production Company
- C
- Executive Producer
- Sorcha Shepherd
- Executive Producer
- Beth Montague-Clyde
- Production Manager
- Ailsa Vanessa Tapping
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Alexander Guy
- Focus Puller
- Thomas Terminet
Casting
- Lead actor
- Maja Laskowska
- Lead actor
- Sumit Chakravarti
Editorial
- Editor
- Owen O’Sullivan
- Editing company
- Marshall St Editors
Grading
Commission
- Commissioner
- Hayley Absalom
- Label
- PIAS
Other credits
Runners
Elliot Watson & Fanny Hoetzeneder
David Knight - 16th June 2016