Hercules & Love Affair 'Omnion' by Crowns & Owls
Crowns & Owls, in their first music video for ages, have returned with an unsettling curiosity for Hercules & Love Affair's Omnion.
A lone robed figure repeatedly walks up a staircase, on a pilgrimage in which she encounters different scenarios involving other pilgrims - and then finally passes through a watery barrier to be entirely transformed.
Crowns & Owls - that's Rory Martinez, Tom Harrison and James Alexander Adair - explain the ideas about the video below. And with its spiritual, quasi-religious overtones, this is absorbing work. It's also distinguished by excellent minimalist-theatrical production design, by James Hamilton at Made London and Max Lincoln, rarely found in music videos these days.
CROWN & OWLS:
"The Omnion video is an exploration of the nuances of gender and sexuality. A story of rebirth, the video follows a lone figure in red on an ascending pilgrimage up a seemingly infinite stair. Perspective play, scale and negative space is used to reflect the complexity of identity.
"Under dappled light our character is guided by descending children; serenely vacant and dripping with water. The stairs open to small rooms, each one a dreamlike homage to the childhood experiences of Andy Butler.
"The closing sequence shows the woman arriving at the summit of the stairs, where a surreal pool cleanses her of the anxieties of adulthood, rebirthing her as a little boy, blessing her with blissful juvenile nativity."
PRO Credits
Credits
Director | Crowns & Owls |
Producer | Luke Plaister |
Executive Producer | Emily Rudge |
1st AD | Jack Meredith |
Stylist | Anna Pesonen |
Production designer | James Hamilton |
Art Director | Max Lincoln |
Focus Puller | Adam Feeney |
2nd AC | Mike Kinsella |
Hair | Maarit Niemala |
Make-up | Elias Hove |
Post production company | Smoke & Mirrors |
Post Producer | Hannah Whitehill |
Post Producer | Andrew Salem |
VFX | Rory Whittle |
Colourist | Jonny Tully |
Commissioner | John Hassay |
Gaffer | Nathan Matthews |
Grip | Neil Blakesley |
Other credits | Grip Assistant: Alfie Wentzel DMX: Onkar Narang Art Standby: Elena Horn Carpenter: Charlie Burns, Tom Robinson, Greg Simpson Rigger: Steve Daley, Rhys Grinter Scenic Painter: Aimee Paton |
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