Laura Marling 'The Valley' by Laura Marling
David Knight - 20th Mar 2017
The final part of a trilogy of videos directed by Laura Marling for tracks for her new album Semper Femina, is another dance piece featuring the choreography of Alexandra Green.
The piece accompanying the hypnotic The Valley is also very much the flipside of the second part in the trilogy. Here the focus is on the woman on the beach, swathed in flowing blue robes - the object of desire for the tormented woman in the sunlit bedroom in the video for Next Time.
This time the action leading to their eventual reunion is extended through the choreography, and the editing, for maximum dramatic effect, which makes their final embrace all the more emotionally satisfying.
Suffice to say that having completed this beautiful piece of music - in fact the whole of Semper Femina is wonderful - Marling has now directed a compelling, conceptually rigourous trio of videos which shows she has a real talent as a visual as well as a musical artist.
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Laura Marling
- Producer
- Martha McGuirk
- Production Company
- P
- Executive Producer
- Ted Thornton
- Executive Producer
- Juliette Larthe
- Production Manager
- Sorcha Bacon
- 1st AD
- Bryony James
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Chloe Thomson
- Focus Puller
- Sean Mcdermott
- 2nd AC
- Lydia Stott
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Jess Summer
- Wardrobe
- Michael Darlington
Casting
- Casting director
- Shakyra Dowling
- Lead actor
- Marta Masiero
- Lead actor
- Johanna Adde Dahl
Editorial
- Editor
- Ellie Mcnaughton
- Editing company
- Work Editorial
Grading
- Colourist
- Oisín O'Driscoll
- Colour grade company
- The Mill
Commission
- Commissioner
- Andrew Law
- Label
- Kobalt Music
Other credits
3rd AD
Molly Vincent
Production Runners
Hayder Hoozeer and Pedro Takahashi
Grip
David Bradshaw
HMU Assist
Natalie Young
Unit Driver
Simon Gee
DIT
Josh Crooks
Special Thanks
Joceline Gabriel
Thanet Film Office
Sharon Kelley
David Knight - 20th Mar 2017