Au/ra 'Medicine' by Theo Davies
Ned Botwood - 22nd July 2019
Au/Ra surrenders to a pool of sickly sweet medicine, in this achingly sad chamber piece by Theo Davies.
The singer’s hyperreal aesthetic finds a perfect match in DoP Oliver Ford. The gossamer visual was graded in nuclear tones by upcoming colourist Jonny Thorpe, a regular Sophia Ray collaborator who set the tone on Au/Ra’s last visual, Emoji.
THEO DAVIES:
I drank a whole bottle of Calpol when I was a kid, obviously because it was delicious. I was rushed to hospital.
"Medicine was such a fun video to make - I can't believe they let me do it! The song is so tender and helpless with these big raises of panicky emotion and desperate repeated words. It felt like it this needed to be a slow film that allowed for a strong performance and a constant raising jeopardy throughout.
"The artist had said from the off that if the medicine was to be visualised, it would be like children's pink cough syrup. I loved the simplicity of making the film all about that syrup and so wrote the idea of her simply drowning her in the sickly sweet medicine."
"I drank a whole bottle of Calpol when I was a kid, obviously because it was delicious. But I was rushed to hospital, obviously because thats really bad for you. So I like to think that influenced the idea a little. I wanted to make the film feel helpless and uncomfortable. Like you could feel the claustrophobic and unrelenting nature of being trapped and drowned in help."
"Jamie (Au/Ra) was incredible. She worked so hard to keep herself in good spirits, but it was a really hard day being trapped in a tank of think pink fluid."
Ned Botwood - 22nd July 2019
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Theo Davies
- Producer
- Alice Gilfillan
- Production Company
- Pavilion Works
- Executive Producer
- Morgan Faverty
- 1st AD
- Tom Turner
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Oliver Ford
- Focus Puller
- Ali Baines
- 2nd AC
- Josh Tilley
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Elliot Beach
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Nicole Kahlani
- Make-up
- Lucy Thomas
- Wardrobe
- Jaime Jarvis
Editorial
- Editor
- Theo Davies
Grading
- Colourist
- Jonny Thorpe
- Grading company
- Glasssworks
Commission
- Commissioner
- Elizabeth Doonan
Other credits
Camera Trainee
Callum Lloyd-James
DIT
Ashley Hicks
Grip
Reece Hearnshaw
Sparks
Nick Tomb & Callum Crisell
Rigger
Steve Daly
SFX
Paul Mann @ Machine Shop
Kit
Take2 / Panalux
Ned Botwood - 22nd July 2019